Questionnaire Personality test

New feature
in Moodle 3.5!

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 immediately followed by the equal sign (=) immediately 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.

(*) No space before nor after the equal sign (=).

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.

Several sections Feedback example

A simplistic "health habits" questionnaire.

Questions

• Create Q1 as a Rate question type
  • Question Name: sports
  • Response Required: Yes.
  • Question Text: How often do you practise these sports?
  • Possible answers:
    • 0=never
    • 1=once a month
    • 2=every week
    • 3=every day
    • cycling
    • running
    • swimming
    • walking

• Create Q2 as a yes/no question type
  • Question Name: fruit and vegetables
  • Response Required: Yes.
  • Question Text: Do you regularly eat fresh fruit and vegetables?

• Create Q3 as a Radio buttons question type
  • Question Name: smoking
  • Response Required: Yes.
  • Question Text: How often do you smoke?
  • Possible answers:
    • 3=never
    • 2=less than one packet per month
    • 1=one packet per week
    • 0=one packet per day

• Create Q4 as a Radio buttons question type
  • Question Name: drinking
  • Response Required: Yes.
  • Question Text: How often do you drink alcohol?
  • Possible answers:
    • 3=never
    • 2=less than one glass per month
    • 1=one glass per week
    • 0=one glass per day

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 2 Feedback sections. 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. Each question is displayed, and the "value" of each choice is displayed, to help you check their coherence. By default, the questions are not set into any Feedback Section (all radio buttons are set at 0). You now have to set each question into one of the 2 Sections you decided to display in your questionnaire's Feedback Report. At this stage, those 2 Feedback Sections have not yet been named, so you really have to be careful and make a mental note of "which is which". Suppose you want Section 1 to be related to your respondents' practise of sport, you would put question 1 into section 1 (click radio button 1 for that question). Now suppose you want your second section to be related to "healthy attitude" towards food, drinking and smoking; click all the remaining radio buttons "2" for questions 2, 3 and 4.

Suppose you get it wrong and you mistakenly put all of your questions in Section 1. Upon clicking on the "Save" button, this error message would be displayed: You must select at least ONE question per section! Section(s) not selected: 2

Now click on the Save Sections settings and edit Feedback Messages button.

Editing Questionnaire Feedback Messages

Feedback heading for section 1/2

You will now get a screen very similar to the one you get for Global Feedback messages (as in our previous example). But you will get several screens, one per section.

• Questions in this section:
  • sports
• Label: Physical activity
• Heading: Your "physical activity" score is $scorepercent.

Feedback messages for section 1/2

This works exactly the same as the Moodle Quiz Score boundary system. Here are a few examples, taken from our sample "Healthy habits" questionnaire.

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 100%
  • Feedback: You must be very fit. Congratulations!

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 66%
  • Feedback: Your physical activity is only average. Come on!

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 33%
  • Feedback: You seem to be a real couch potato. Make an effort!

When finished, click the Next section (2/2) button.

Feedback heading for section 2/2

• Questions in this section:
  • fruit and vegetables
  • smoking
  • drinking
• Label: Healthy habits
• Heading: Your "healthy habits" score is $scorepercent.

Feedback messages for section 2/2

This works exactly the same as the Moodle Quiz Score boundary system. Here are a few examples, taken from our sample "Healthy habits" questionnaire.

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 100%
  • Feedback: You seem to have quite healthy habits. Continue!

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 66%
  • Feedback: You seem to have not very healthy habits. Make an effort to cut down on drinking and smoking.

• Feedback Score boundary
  • 33%
  • Feedback: You seem to have not terribly healthy habits. You must make a serious effort.

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.

This report is similar to the Global Feedback report in our previous example, except that now the score is separated into 2 sections.

Bipolar results

Some "personality tests" aim at detecting a bipolar characteristic in respondents' character. For example, whether an individual's profile is rather visual or auditory, global or analytic, extrovert or introvert etc. See Julian Rotter's theory of Locus of Control.

In such cases, you can enter the section labels as a set of 2 opposed (bipolar) concepts, separated by a pipe character.

In a questionnaire based on the Locus of Control theory, this "bipolar" heading will give the following kind of report:

Chart display

Important Note.- This feature is currently in Beta stage and only available from the github repository (Questionnaire version 2.6.3).

Site settings

Upon installing or updating the Questionnaire plugin, its "site settings" page is displayed. On that Site administration ► Plugins ► Activity modules ► Questionnaire page, an admin can choose to enable the Chart feature site-wide. The default is No (do not enable). The Questionnaire Chart feature currently uses the RGraph libraries, which are licensed under the MIT type of open source license.