VULAB-118: Create Initial Priortized List of Question Types

Description

Form a prioritized list of the question types we want to include in VULab. Circulate a list to the mailing list with the existing questions and my tentative ranking.

Note that we should discuss what CORE types are required, and the possible "flavors" of each type as some question types will be redundant, ex. Boolean: (Yes, No vs. True, False, vs. On, Off)

Comments

• Blake E commented 2008-12-08T16:44:07.000-0500

  Currently phpESP has the following types in its database:

  On the left we have the name, and the right we have the database table it uses. Notice that same type questions have the same tablename.

  Yes/No response_bool
  Text Box response_text
  Essay Box response_text
  Radio Buttons response_single
  Check Boxes response_multiple
  Dropdown Box response_single
  Rate (scale 1..5) response_rank
  Date response_date
  Numeric response_text

• Blake E commented 2008-12-08T16:49:32.000-0500

  As I see it, I imagine the following core question types:

  Question
  1. Boolean Questions - Yes/No, True/False, etc.
  2. Text Input - Comments, Essay, Simple Text Forms.
  3. Multiple Choice - Checkboxes, Radios, Dropdown Menus.
  4. Rating Scales - Rating x...y, etc.
  5. Date - Birthdays, enrollment dates, etc.etc.

  This is good enough to send out to the list, do it tomorrow morning so people have time to read it (mornings are best for list)

• Blake E commented 2008-12-08T16:49:40.000-0500

  its almost done. lets push to vulab13

• Blake E commented 2009-01-12T16:12:43.000-0500

  I have the initial research finished and I'll come back to this issue once we get a little more into the code planning.