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Playing around with my Take engine, which is probably going to be renamed to Assessable when I'm down. I've played around with evaluating or score text input, either by a contains match or a numeric match. Draft markdown overview. ### Text Evaluation Text entered in a text field or text area can be scored. The text_eval field in the answer record allows you to set a formula to evaluate the answer that comes in from the assessment form. There are two methods of evaluation: Contains and Numeric. #### Numeric Evaluation Numeric evaluation allow you to see if the answer entered, converted to a number, matches the text_eval field, also converted to a number. This is primarily for use with floating point number. The formula optionally has a delta range value that allow for decimal point precision. An example question: * What is the value of Pi, rounded to 4 decimal places? * text_eval set to "3.1416" * Only an input of "3.1416" will evaluate to true. There are some potential problems using floating point number. Some number when converted from text will not be exact.{example?}. To guard against that, you can provide a delta value that will be added to and subtracted from the converted number and a range checked. * What is the value of Pi, rounded to 4 decimal places? * text_eval set to "3.1416::0.00001" * the input of "3.1416" will evaluate to true if after conversion it is in the range between 3.14159 to 3.14161. * The :: (double colon) delimitates the match section from the deltas section You can also provide an optional partial credit percentage, represented as a whole number percentage. * text_eval set to "3.1416::0.00001%%100" is equivalent to "3.1416::0.00001" since the default percentage is 100% * text_eval set to "3.1416::0.00001%%80" would give 80% credit if the match was not exact, but between 3.14159 to 3.14161. * The %% (double percent) delimits the delta value from the percentage "3.1416" happens to convert exactly in floating point. If you use Pi often, you probably have in memorized to a certain precession. Pi is 3.141592 to six places. If that is what is entered because the user didn't RTFQ, they'd get 80% credit. You can also have multiple deltas. Each delta is delimited by the same :: delimiter. The liberal evaluator could enter: * text_eval set to "3.1416::0.00001%%80::0.0001%%40::0.001:20" * 100% if 3.1416 entered * 80% if 3.14159 entered * 40% if 3.14155 entered * 20% if 3.1415 entered Liberal evaluators are like our current teacher where close counts for everything, except in horseshoes! There is a Text Eval helper in the Edit/Add Answers form that allows you to just enter the match, deltas and percentages and it will create the formula. If you are evaluating integers or *exact* numbers, you can just use the Contains Evaluation. #### Contains Evaluation Contains evaluation uses a formula, that is converted to Regular Expression to see if a text answer matches the rules defined the formula. * What is the noun in the sentence "See Spot run."? * text_eval set to "spot" (answers are converted to lowercase) * Only the input of "spot" will evaluate to true. The evaluation can contain multiple words that are AND'd or phrases. It can also contain multiple words that are OR'd together * What are the nouns in the sentence "See Jane and Spot run."? * text_eval set to "spot jane" * Only the input of "jane spot" will evaluate to true. * What are the nouns in the sentence "See Jane and Spot run."? * text_eval set to "spot&jane". The and operator & (ampersand) delimitates words that must be in the answer * Only the inputs of "jane spot" or "spot jane" will evaluate to true. * What US President said "Gorbachev, tear down this wall." in a famous speech? * text_eval set to "ronald&reagan" * Only the input of "ronald reagan" or "reagan ronald " will evaluate to true. To Or words, they must be contain in () and have an OR operator \| (vertical bar) between the words Again the liberal teacher. * What are the nouns in the sentence "See Jane and Spot run."? * text_eval set to "(spot\|jane)" * The inputs of "jane spot", "spot jane", "jane", "spot" will evaluate to true. They would say its close enough if they just enter one noun! Matches can also be negated using the NOT operator "!" (explanation point) The good teacher (probably conservative) would know that students are sometime smarter than you think. * What are the nouns in the sentence "See Jane and Spot run."? * text_eval set to ("spot&jane)&!see&!and&!run" * Any input containing "see" OR "and" OR "", "run" would NOT evaluate to true. Like Numeric Evaluations, Contains Evaluation also provides a mechanism of giving partial credit. The :: eliminator divide the formula into an Exact section and a Partial section. The Partial section contains a match element and an percent element. The partial match element is just like the exact match. It can contain, AND's, OR's and NOT's. Again the liberal teacher decided they were being too liberal and decided to give only 50% credit if only one noun was entered. * What are the nouns in the sentence "See Jane and Spot run."? * text_eval set to ("spot&jane)::(spot\|jane)%%50" * The inputs of "jane spot" would get 100%. The inputs of "jane" or "spot" would get 50% if an exact match was not found. Again being a little smarter than the students, you repeat the not conditions. * What are the nouns in the sentence "See Jane and Spot run."? * text_eval set to ("spot&jane)&!see&!and&!run::(spot\|jane)&!see&!and&!run%%50" * Any input containing "see" OR "and" OR "", "run" would NOT evaluate to true. The is also a Text Eval helper that will help build the Contains formula. The form helper (or typing) will also allow an optional || (double OR operator) that allows you to OR groups of matches. * `text_eval set to "spot||jane" is the same as "(spot|jane)"` * text_eval set to "'some group of matches\|\|another group of matches" allows for complicated matches that probably don't exist. .markdown
See Spot run
May 02, 2013