Questionnaire (plugin)

I started making my "quiz," and by that I mean personality test,(I apologize for mislabeling, I do realize that "quiz" is something completely different in moodle), and I quickly realized that it wasn't sure whether or not I would be able to make it or not. I did the tests that I could, to see what they were doing from the perspective of the test taker and based on what I saw, I was unsure of how to implement my test.

By short and simple, I was actually referring to this concept that I will now try to explain a little more in depth.

1) I would prefer to...

(a) Listen to a sory on a CD or on my iPod

(b) Watch a story on a DVD or on YouTube

(c) Work with children to prepare a special performance of a story

(d) Make something to illustrate a story

Then questions 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. At the end of this "learning style test" the a, b, c, and d's are added up and if someone gets more than 5 of a letter  they have "'X' dominant learning style." If they have 3 or less they have "no strong perference for 'X' learning style."

Based on what I saw from taking the Multiple Intelligence Test and reading some of the documentations, I assumed that I would have to break the test instead into sections and instead have people rate their answers. For example,

Section 1 (would be audio learning preference questions)

1. I would prefer to listen to a story on a CD or on my iPod. <rate preference here>

2. When I need to learn something new, I want to hear someone explain it. <rate>

etc. etc.

Section 2 (would be visual learning preference questions)

1. I would prefer to listen to a story on a CD or on my iPod. <rate>

etc etc.

Then based on the responses at the end it would look something like:

Audio learning style= You do not have a strong perference for audio learning. etc etc.

Do these make sense? Are both ways of doing the test possible or am I locked into doing my learning styles test the way I describe in my second example? I started investigating the possibility of creating a custom form and having that on the page. However, I'll wager that intergrating a form into moodle is extremely difficult.

Another question. Is it possible to save the users' results? For example, if the students who take this test find out they are "visual learners," my teachers need to know this information. Storing these results is vital.

Also Joseph, thank you for the encourgement and advice. I'm very excited about the prospects of this plugin.
Brayton

Thanks a lot Joseph.

I've been testing this weekend and I think it's very promising.

My personality test is a bit more complicated than Case study #2. the test has six subresults. Manipulation of the subresults will give the endresult.

The customer only needs to see the endresult. Basicly what I need for this are 6 extra variables ($extravar1, ... $extravar6) to do all the calculations with.

Do you think it is possible to add extra variables to be used in the Data Analysis Field, in order to perform some more complex calculations?

Tnx.

Cor

This sounds like an exciting development and one that could be useful in a number of applications.

Could you please update us on any progress and likely inclusion in future versions of feedback/questionnaire?

All the best,

Jim

Dear Joseph,

I have an issue I think it's releated with the number of questions. I have 206 questions in the personality test that i'm working on. On the results page I can't make it calculate the analitics of the three digit numbered questions.

$subscore=$q1+$q2+$q3+$q106+$q107+$q108

For this example the script understands there are 6 questions in the array but it doesn't add 3 digit numbers to subscore.

Could anyone help me on this.
BRGDS

any progress with this feature?