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This week I learned to pool questions in a MyMathLab test.  To use pooling you need to enable pooling on the first screen where when you start to create a test.  (This post assumes you have made MyMathLab tests).  You can select a group of questions and press the Pool button.  On each student’s test the software will select only one of those questions.

I plan to use this feature to create short quizzes the students can use while reviewing for the final.  I will take every objective for a chapter and chose a problem.  Then I will pool them into one question.  The students when they try this test will get a subset of objectives- just like they get on the real final.  They can also take these quizzes in a short period of time.   I will set the test so they can take it an unlimited number of times.  If a student does well on several iterations they can consider themselves ready.  Care must be taken to explain to students that a single 100% does not mean readiness since each quiz only samples the objectives.