Narrative answers, how to measure "correctness"

Apr 28, 2022

I'm building a module that has some assessment questions at the beginning.

The answers to these will be narrative, as in "Please describe your experience of a,b,c...."

There are two things I'd like to achieve:

I'd like to measure the value of these answers based on keyword occurrence.

I'd like the module to be able to "learn" and gather more "right answer" material from the submissions it collects as the module is used more and more....

Any ideas?

Hope that makes sense!

2 Replies
Walt Hamilton

This discussion contains a sample project that will allow you to check answers based on keyword use, but not frequency: https://community.articulate.com/discussions/articulate-storyline/free-sample-check-essay-questions-for-concepts-not-words 

It shouldn't be too difficult to modify the js to count usages.

As to learning, there really is no way to change your SL project after it is published. So the only way it might work would to programatically connect it to some sort of a database. My first thought is that even if it's possible, it is probably more work than it would be worth, but YMMV.