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<journal-id>1870-9044</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Polibits]]></journal-title>
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<issn>1870-9044</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro de Innovación y Desarrollo Tecnológico en Cómputo]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.17562/PB-54-7</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[A Method Based on Genetic Algorithms for Generating Assessment Tests Used for Learning]]></article-title>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Popescu Anastasiu]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Doru]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bold]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Nicolae]]></given-names>
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<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Nijloveanu]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Daniel]]></given-names>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,University of Pitesti Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Romania</country>
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<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest Faculty of Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Romania</country>
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<aff id="Af3">
<institution><![CDATA[,University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Bucharest Faculty of Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Romania</country>
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<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2016</year>
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<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2016</year>
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<numero>54</numero>
<fpage>53</fpage>
<lpage>60</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1870-90442016000200053&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1870-90442016000200053&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1870-90442016000200053&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Tests are used in a variety of contexts in the activity of everyday and everywhere learning. They are a specific method in the process of assessment (evaluation), which is an important part of the educational activity. Setting an optimized sequence of tests (SOT) originating from a group of tests which have the same subject, with certain restrictions corresponding to a certain wish of the evaluator can be a slowly time-consuming task, because the restriction can be various and the number of tests can be high. In this matter, this paper presents a method of generating optimized sequences of tests within a battery of tests using a genetic algorithm. We associate a number of representative keywords with a test. The user expresses the restriction by setting up a number of keywords which approximate best the subject wanted to be tested. The genetic algorithm helps in finding the optimized solutions and uses a less amount of hardware resources.]]></p></abstract>
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