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Abstract

A process and system for creating and administering flexible, complex, error free electronic interviews or test of any kind. The process includes creating a library containing a plurality of self contained objects, i.e. question functional statements (QFUs). The QFUs are modules comprising a question statement, controls for answering the question statement, internal scoring controls, and controls for generating an unlimited variety of reactions or software responses to each answer. A plurality of categories is created to index QFUs wherein the category names are based on a tree structure relationship. These QFUs are used to build simple groups of QFU that are commonly found together, i.e. macro questions, as well as questionnaire templates. Questionnaire templates consists of multiple QFUs and categorical headings that are arranged in a two dimensional tree structure in a manner to logically represent the logical inter relationships between the different QFUs. A plurality of question macros in a macro library and a plurality of questionnaire templates are devices that allow rapid development of new questionnaires. The process further comprises placing these devices on a server for access via network being limited to authorized administrative users. The process also comprises creating an interview as an instance of the questionnaire template that can be distributed to clients on a network and applied to a specific interviewee. The server can be accessed by a plurality of authorized users from remote computers via a network.

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