Thanks for your thoughts, Jeremie! Much appreciated. Re: Grid entry versus OCR -- Our nonprofit works primarily with elementary school students, which would make text recognition hard. I totally agree on avoiding non-natural formats, but with students who are still developing their handwriting skills, grid/matrix entry may be the most viable option.
Best, Ryan On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Jérémie Lumbroso < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > -- *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
