Hello Ryan, I am sorry to have not answered earlier with my experience, as an SDAPS user.
In decided whether SDAPS might be useful for your projects, you might want to consider the following: -- SDAPS is extremely flexible. Given a bit of work, it is possible to support a wide array of question types that are not supported by similar solutions. While there is not (yet) a "matrix" question type to enter real numbers, it is sufficiently easy to do for a user. -- SDAPS is evolving: it is currently being in part rewritten to allow for these types of questions out of the box. The timeline is not forever, it's happening this year. -- I have used SDAPS extensively to give complex exams to several hundreds students at a time. The strength of SDAPS is that it has allowed me to blend multiple choice questions and also essay questions, with a lot of flexibility, and so my exams don't feel limited by the requirements of computer assisted grading (say, the standard five-choices of standardized testing such as Scantron forms). -- Personally, I do not like forcing the answerer/student to enter solutions in a non-natural form. The "grid answer" you suggest is a poor substitute for actually writing the number. That is why I am personally focusing my efforts on trying to bring basic (digit) handwriting recognition to SDAPS, rather than figuring out how to get grids to work. Since I'm not an expert in handwriting recognition, I have no clue whether I'll be successful, but there alternative, simple solutions that still beat the grid answer. -- Finally, SDAPS being free and open source, if you're building your business on top of it, you won't have to pay steep licensing fees :) Best, Jérémie. On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Ryan Knight < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am having trouble finding a list of supported question types before > deciding whether it is worth doing a deeper investigation of sdaps. > > Is it possible to create a question where the response could be any > positive or negative 3 digit number? For example, the 'grid answer' items > here: > http://parcc.pearson.com/resources/Practice_Tests/Grade_7/Math/PC194839-001_G7MathOPTB_PT.pdf > > Best, > Ryan > > -- > *Ryan Knight* > *Director of Strategy and Evaluation* > UP Education Network > 90 Canal Street, Suite 600 > Boston, MA 02114 > Mobile Phone: (603) 219-1109 > upeducationnetwork.org >
