BONTOC, Mountain Province – To ease the burden of teachers on voluminous paper works with deadlines, the Mountain Province State Polytechnic College (MPSPC)-main campus conducted training on computer-based software with the capacity of computing test item analysis and data processing for instructors and researchers at MPSPC-main campus on November 26-27.
Said activity focused in using computer software for easy and immediate result particularly on test item analysis, data processing and analysis.
This simplified statistic software aids teachers in solving descriptive statistics and inferential statistics, table of specification and competency, correlation, regression and modern approach of hypothesis testing, test formulator.
Also, it has a feature of I bank, which serves as a bank for questions ready for making test question that could be done in a minute with automatic formulation of table of specifications.
Researchers would also benefit on this software because statistical tools are easy to manipulate for non-mathematicians since upon entering the needed data it automatically gives interpretation and decision in just a second.
The trainers were the twin brothers and inventor of the software Engr. Alex B. Bermudo, RME, PhD. Professor III at Camariness Sur Polytechnic College and Engr. Ceasar B. Bermundo, RME, PhD. Professor V at Ateneo de Naga University. They are also authors of many statistics books.
Due to its necessity, the same training also was conducted at MPSPC-Tadian Campus on November 28-29 and it was attended by selected faculty of Ilocos Sur Polytechnic College-Cervantes Campus.
By Fidel Aguindang
