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Designing Yes /No Questions with Test Pilot
Each Test Pilot question type has a number of configurable options. Clicking on the Response Handling tab near the top of the database window bring up the first set of these options. If you wish to return to editing the question's text or associated media, click on the Text and Style tab.
- Pop-Up Menu vs. Radio Buttons - this controls how the possible responses to the question will be presented to the user by Test Pilot's web server extension. Consider the example to the right; the first question is presented using radio buttons; the second is presented using a pop-up menu where the user clicks and drags to his/her selection.
- include a not applicable item - checking this option causes a not applicable choice to be added to the standard choices. This is typically used on surveys. Please note that not applicable may not be designated as a correct answer to any question. If you wish to do that, use the multiple choice question type.
include followup question - checking this option adds a small text entry box to the question generated by Test Pilot's web server component. You may enter a tag line for this text entry area in the box provided. This is typically used to gather additional information in survey questions. Test Pilot does not score the entries users make in these followup boxes but will store them for later recall and analysis.
default response - this allow you to preselect a particular response on the web page generated by Test Pilot's web server extension. That is, you may have the yes response already selected for the user when the test is generated. This is probably not a good option to use on surveys as it may skew your statistics.
feedback - Test Pilot can optionally return feedback based on the user's choice of response. You may enter your customized feedback in the space provided. Test Pilot will not issue this feedback unless you choose to Return Feedback to User in the Submission Handling section.
points - you may enter the number of points you wish to award a particular answer. Test Pilot considers any positive non-zero value as a correct answer to a question. You may leave the points fields empty or zero if, as in the case of survey questions, there is no correct answer to the question. When left empty or zero, Test Pilot will refrain from automatically scoring the question. There are two convenience buttons to help you quickly assign 1 point to a particular correct answer and zero to the incorrect response.
store - Test Pilot can record the user's responses in three ways: as choices, the actual text of the user's selection is stored; as numbers, a number representing the user's selection is stored (0 for no, 1 for yes, -1 for not applicable, -2 for unanswered); as letters, a letter representing the user's choice is stored (a for yes, b for no, -1 for not applicable and -2 for unanswered)
help - as always, you can click on the help message to view a help screen tailored to this particular database screen and it options.
branching - if you have elected to present this assessment one question at a time, you may also enable branching which can present the next question based on the participant's response to the current question. For yes/no questions, this is implemented as a choice-based decision. That is, if the participant chooses true, one question is shown, while otherwise another question is shown. If either entry is left blank, the next logical question in the assessment is shown when the choice is made.
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