I have done some work on this that others might find useful. There is some rudimentary documentation:
https://github.com/vtkovacs/gradetest/blob/master/Gradetest.pdf Terry Terrence Kovacs Research Systems Engineer Physics and Astronomy Department Dartmouth College Wilder 341, 603-646-9303 ________________________________ From: Jérémie Lumbroso <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2015 8:35 AM To: Terrence Kovacs Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: sdaps for "bubble" form test answer sheets Hello Terry, I am using SDAPS extensively at Princeton for exams, and am able to take advantage of it's huge amount of flexibility. Up until now, I have mostly done my postprocessing through rapid prototypes - something that is fine for my own usage, but not suitable for public distribution. Over the past summer, and in the upcoming year, I am developing a better set of tools to hopefully be able to extend this. Post-processing is actually very easy thanks to Benjamin's extensive CSV export feature: this feature exports each individual's exam as a row, with checkboxes as binary fields, and everything else as exported PNG images (including, if desired, the checkboxes' images for doublechecking for instance). This provides a vast opportunity to - often very simply - postprocess the grades, even for very simple things like computing an actual grade. What I have in mind is very complicated, and possibly a separate set of tools. So I think that what you are actually describing is something that would greatly benefit SDAPS. That is having a built-in function to simply extract a grade from a multiple choice exam with a simple grading scheme - right now it is much more geared towards survey, and so as far as I know the only ready-made exporting feature is the report with percentiles. Best, Jérémie. On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:04 PM, Terrence Kovacs <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello, I am new to sdaps and am impressed by it's ability to process forms. It is far better at this than the commercial software we have been using to process bubble test answer sheets. Sdaps is really nice for what it was intended for - automated processing of survey forms but I do not see that there is much in the way of post processing for individual grading. I am thinking of trying to do this but has anyone else attempted/done this? Thanks, Terry Terrence Kovacs Research Systems Engineer Physics and Astronomy Department Dartmouth College Wilder 341, 603-646-9303
