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KALT PLUS

Suppose that you have to take an admission questionnaire to a professional career. This is something very serious for you; you are simply betting on your future! Can you trust that they revised the instrument with the object to eliminate the defects and to make the scoring in a precise way? What would you think if they told you that the exam was not analyzed and that the scoring was made in a program that only counts the correct answers, developed by a begginer programmer in evaluation? In other words: your future is highly uncertain because the institution doesn't have the suitable tools to carry out a correct evaluation.

There is an argument that many educational institutions use for not buying KALT PLUS®: they already have a program for "scoring" the exams. At least it is what they think, because in fact, what they obtain with this procedure, is only the number of each person's correct answers and at the most, a chart of frequencies of answers for each question. This is not to score neither to analyze a questionnaire!

It is common practice to make the scoring of the objective questionnaires with the program that is provided with the optical reader or using a program developed by a programmer with no experience in evaluation or even more, by the evaluator himself using a spreadsheet, just to accomplish the task.

Evaluation is a serious matter that doesn't admit improvisations. The evaluator must have the support of a tool made by professionals in evaluation, with robust and proven mathematical models. No program can compete with the quality and robustness that KALT PLUS® offers.

KALT PLUS® is the evaluation standard in our country. It is a complete system (including programs, mathematical models, courses, technical support, consultantship) to seriously support the evaluator in his task scoring and evaluating objective questionnaires. KALT PLUS® not only allows to generate the student's results, it also generates the reports of the analysis of the questionnaire, with those that the evaluator will be able to judge the quality of the instrument and to have the elements to correct, to give feedback and to inform in an opportune and complete way.

KALT PLUS® is at the moment the fastest available scoring program in the market, it allows to manage big populations, several versions, with practically unlimited number of items, depending on the version that is purchased.

TYPES OF REPORTS THAT KALT PLUS® GENERATES:

	Statistical. It includes mean, mode, variance, percentiles, measure errors, etc. The statistical report offers the graphic presentation of the results: histograms, accumulated frequencies, etc.
	Global. Report of the participans groups, with the option of configuring the output with normalized data (Z) or referred to T scoring, College Board, etc.
	Individual. Feedback report to the student so that he improves his performance and to inform him of the position that he occupies among the participants group.
	Technical Report. Analysis of the instrument containing reliability, reports about the quality of the questions and of the topics.
	Item Analysis. The items are analyzed in a global way and in function of of everydistractor, including grade of difficulty, discrimination power, analysis of the options and distractores. The evaluator has all the elements to improve the behavior of the defective items, with object of not transferring the problem from a bad questionnaire to the students.

CHARACTERISTICS OF KALT PLUS®:

Version	Maximum number of students	Maximum number of versions	Maximum number of items	Maximum number of topics
Plus	Unlimited	10	400	50

Using KALT PLUS® you may carry out the next activities::

	To score the correct answers of the students to report the domain or ability levels at a global, topic or specific knowledge area basis.
	To locate the students with the best performance.
	To identify the incorrect items, to eliminate them and to improve the instrument.
	To present the population's statistical reports.
	To emit statistical reports of the instrument.
	To prepare files to communicate with database programs, spreadsheets or preparation of reports.
	To prepare files to communicate with charting programs.
	To debug files to be applied in "tests" to witness groups, previous to the definitive implementation of the questionnaire to the objective population.
	To debug items to correct defective answer options.
	To integrate a bank of reliable and proven items.
	To give feedback to the Educational Institution regarding their educational and evaluation goals.

KALT PLUS® is our most recognized product, used by the best educational centers of the country: UNAM, UAM, UABC, UAAgs, COBACH, among many others and virtually used by all Mexican institutions through the service that CENEVAL offers (EXANIS, EGCP) KALT PLUS® has scored and analyzed more than 5 million questionnaires in Mexico, with proven efficiency.

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