Questionnaire Personality test

New feature
in Moodle 2.6!

Overview

Definition

A personality test is a tool that attempts to measure a person's social interaction skills and patterns of behavior. (US legal definition).

In the Moodle Questionnaire add-on, the "personality test" feature enables a questionnaire creator to attribute different "values" to the answers to certain types of questions. Those values can be added into scores - globally or in several "sections" - and relevant feedback messages based on those scores can be displayed to the respondent.

Given the particular nature of the "personality test" feature, great care should be exercised when using it in questionnaires.

Organization

The following question types can be used with the "personality test" feature: Radio buttons, Dropdown Box, Rate and Yes/No. In order for the answers to those questions to be "scored", they must have a question name, must be required and each of their choices must have a value. For the Yes/No question, the default values are 1 for a Yes answer and 0 for a No.

Settings

See the examples below.

Global Feedback example

Adapted from www.personalitytest.net

Questions

• Create Q1 as a Radio Buttons (or Dropdown Box) question type
  • Question Name: feel your best
  • Response Required: Yes. We are giving question Q1 a name and setting it as Required because we plan to use it in the Personality test feedback.
  • Question Text: When do you feel your best?
  • Possible answers:
    • 2=In the morning
    • 4=During the afternoon and early evening
    • 6=Late at night

Each possible answer choice begins with a value followed by the equal sign (=) followed by the choice words. The values attributed to the various choices must be carefully considered in order to obtain a coherent "score" when they are added up in the feedback score calculation. Here we are using the values as given in the "personality fun test" of our example.

Continue to create all 10 questions in the sample questionnaire.

Advanced settings

Now go to the questionnaire's Advanced settings page.

Additional Info

As usual you may use the Additional Info field to enter instructions for the respondents.

Feedback options

Now that your questionnaire contains a number of questions which fill the requirements mentioned above for using the Personality test feature, the Feedback options section is available. In the Feedback options dropdown box, select the first option available, i.e. Global Feedback. You may use the Feedback notes field to enter text which will be displayed to your repondents at the end of their "Feedback report", e.g. external link to more information on the topic, etc. Now click the Save settings and edit Feedback Sections button.

Editing Questionnaire Feedback Sections

On this page is displayed the full list of the questions available for the Feedback report. Since we have selected the Global feedback option, all those questions have been default-set in Section 1, the only section available here. Each question is displayed, and the "value" of each choice is displayed, to help you check their coherence. Normally, you have nothing to change on that page. However you might want to remove one or several questions from the list by clicking the 0 radio button instead of the (Section) 1 button. Now click on the Save Sections settings and edit Feedback Messages button.

Editing Questionnaire Feedback Messages

Global Feedback heading

• This begins with a list of the names of all the questions that are used in this Global Feedback section.
• The Label text box should be kept as short as possible. It will be displayed in the Feedback report and - when the Chart feature is avaiblable in a later version of Questionnaire - will be used in the Charts.
• In the Heading field you may type a brief heading text. You may use 2 variables in this heading, $scorepercent and $oppositescorepercent. One example is: "You scored $scorepercent in this questionnaire."

Global Feedback messages

This works exactly the same as the Moodle Quiz Score boundary system. Here are a few examples, still taken from our sample Personality "Fun" test.

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 100%
  • Feedback : Others see you as someone they should "handle with care" You're seen as vain, self-centered, and who is extremely dominant. Others may admire you, wishing they could be more like you, but don't always trust you, hesitating to become too deeply involved with you.

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 94%
  • Feedback : Others see you as an exciting, highly volatile, rather impulsive personality; a natural leader, who's quick to make decisions, though not always the right ones. [etc.]

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 85%

etc.

This starts with 3 default boundaries and associated messages, but you may add more boundaries if needed.

When finished, click the Save settings button.

Report

This is how the Feedback report will look like to a respondent after taking our sample questionnaire.

1. This table shows the global score for respondent plus, if any, the average global score for all participants. If the questionnaire is set to "separate groups", this box may show the average global score for the group that the actual respondent belongs to.
2. In the first box of the Feedback Report we see the Heading text, which may include the value of the $scorepercent variable.
3. In the second box we see the "personalized" feedback message, relevant to the Feedback score boundaries that the actual respondent's score sits in.

On the View all Responses page, the Feedback report heading will be displayed, together with the average Global score for All participants. If the questionnaire is set to "visible" or "separate groups", the average global score for the current group will be displayed.