Mathematical task

Tue Jan 21 10:05:08 UTC 2014

Hi,

Shouldn’t be all that hard at all, but David touches on an important topic: you need to think deep and hard about how you wish to design it. Why, for instance, if you’re interested in millisecond precision, are you showing all questions at the same time? It will take less time to answer question 10 than question 1, for many reasons: because of training (motor, cognition, etc), because perhaps you need to move the mouse, but also because presumably, your students will have read, for instance, a bit of question 5 before they have answered question 1 – therefore, some previewing can be assumed. How do you know, then, that the ms between answering question 4 and answering question 5 reflect the cognitive processing time of question 5? These kinds of uncertainties will make it useless to record reaction time, certainly in milliseconds. E-Prime is generally really great for very well specified designs, for instance:

1)      Show fixation.

2)      Show equation 223 + 123 = 346. Centrally on the screen, until response.

3)      Subject responds LEFT if the answer is correct, or RIGHT if the answer is incorrect.

4)      Repeat, from random list, and include 50% wrong answers as well (for example 223 + 123 = 364, which has similar visual appearance).

This, I think, is the level of detail in which E-Prime shines; other levels are possible, but are, as David suggests, probably best investigated with a different approach. I hope you find my comments helpful.

Best,

Michiel

From: e-prime at googlegroups.com [mailto:e-prime at googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Shai Aviram
Sent: 21. January 2014 08:50
To: e-prime at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Mathematical task

David thank you for the quick replay

I would need to register students respond in millisecond precision.

so i`m guessing HTML may be less for me? 

Nevertheless , if it is possible, I prefer to user E-prime since my University uses the E-Prime program.

Thanks,

Shai.  

On Monday, January 20, 2014 10:22:40 PM UTC+2, McFarlane, David wrote:

Do you need millisecond precision for stimulus & response times?  If 
not, then you might find it easier to do this in plain 
HTML/CSS/JavaScript/ActiveX in a web browser, or maybe with something 
like Empirisoft MediaLab. 

Otherwise, to answer the question asked, yes, you could do this with 
E-Prime with some effort.  I leave it to others to provide details. 

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At 1/20/2014 03:03 PM Monday, Shai Aviram wrote: 
>I need to design a mathematical task 
>this is a simple task in which the student will see 10 mathematical 
>exercises and he needs to solve them sequentiality (from top one to 
>the last one) 
>to design this task I need the ability to present a set of exercises 
>(vertically) and allow user the answer each exercise (input field) 
>and see what he types on screen. and allow him to advance to the next exercise 
>it should something like this: 
> 
>223 + 123 = 346  (example for answer exercise by student) 
> 
>120 + 150 = 270  (example for answer exercise by student) 
> 
>300 + 400 = ____ (this is the current exercise the student need to answer) 
> 
>150 + 150 = ____  (this is the next exercise for the student) 
> 
>and so on... 
> 
>I would like to know if this design is possible to be designed in E-prime? 
> 
>Thanks in advance. 

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