{"id":313,"date":"2003-05-06T06:39:44","date_gmt":"2003-05-06T11:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=313"},"modified":"2003-05-06T06:39:44","modified_gmt":"2003-05-06T11:39:44","slug":"this_is_a_test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/06\/this_is_a_test.html","title":{"rendered":"This is a test … this is only a test …"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the Sweeney Todd <\/i>test, below<\/a>, is the first one I’ve ever built (after 170-odd <\/a>that I’ve taken). It was an interesting exercise. I used Quizilla<\/a>, which basically does all the work for you. The interface is to develop tests is pretty easy, though it’s really best that you have everything in mind you want to do up front; by default when you save a test it goes “live,” which can be embarrassingly premature.<\/p>\n

I came up with the questions pretty quickly, though, never having worked with Quizilla before, I ran into on snag. I knew I wanted something a bit more sophisticated than the “three multiple choice questions, each answer obviously pointing toward a particular character.” Ideally, I could have some straightforward questions, some general answers, and then map the answers to the characters; ideally, if an answer pointed to more than one character, I should be able to do that.<\/p>\n

It’s [pardon me, have to take a call, ah, it’s Katherine, okay, have to roar like Daddy Bear, okay, I’m back] only the latter that I couldn’t do in Quizilla, but I did manage to kind of anonymize the answers by simply throwing a lot of “pick as many as you want” questions out there; if my interp of a given answer is a bit off, it’s likely made up for elsewhere. <\/p>\n

Quizilla does have a limit of 9 or 10 answers to a given question, so for some of the questions I had to break up the “pick any” answers into three groups. Should still work, though.<\/p>\n

The images were the toughest part. I wanted to start off with the classic Victorian characatures from the original Broadway show, but tracking down others to use wasn’t trivial. Sifted through a lot of Tenniel and Nash and many others to get what I did, and while I’m not 100% happy with them, hopefully they’re enjoyable.<\/p>\n

I’m not 100% thrilled with Quizilla’s default “HTML code to paste,” but I always modify what I put up on this page anyway from the default.<\/p>\n

At any rate, it serves my <\/i>definition of a good one of these tests: enjoyable subject, appropriate mapping of answers to conclusions (I think), and about as much meaning as you can get from one of these micro-inventories. I hope you <\/i>enjoy it, too (and spread the word). I don’t expect to create another of these any time soon, but it was an interesting exercise while it lasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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