18. The method of claim 17 , wherein the database selection field is used to select the database, wherein the database comprises text material.
17. A computer-implemented method for use in the computerized development of sentence-based test items, the method comprising: displaying a graphical user interface on a display, the graphical user interface comprising a database selection field, a sentence pattern entry field, an option pane, and an output pane; searching a database for one or more sentences based upon a user-specified syntax pattern entered in the sentence pattern entry field, the one or more sentences matching the user-specified syntax pattern, the one or more sentences to be used for producing one or more sentence-based test items; generating one or more responses corresponding to the one or more sentences; and producing the one or more sentence-based test items based upon the one or more sentences and the one or more responses.