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Description
This questionnaire is about euro and the transitional period. It is a
very up-to-date subject that all european citizens are going to face it soon.
It has 10 questions either in "multiple choice" mode either in "text" mode.
Every question is accompanied with an image that has to do with euro, either
symbols or coins in order to promote the educative aspect I wanted to give.
The user is being asked to give his name in the beginning because I keep track
of all the users and their score in a file called results.dat.
Questions appear one by one and the users choice is being followed by
a "feedback" screen that draws again the question putting a cross in front
of the false answer given and a tick in front of the correct and of course
the feedback that explains in words whether he has given the right answer or
not and why. The user has the option to quit whenever he wants or starting
all over again with the menu bar.
In the end he can see his name and score
in the "HALL OF FAME" :) and choose to learn more from the official sites
for euro or do again the questionnaire to test whether he improved or not.
Resuming, the realisation of my objectives accordingly is:
Technical Problems
For such an interesting subject I wanted to provide apart from a quiz an
educative aspect to inform for the changes. So, I realised that I should
concentrate my attention in the creation of feedback.
I had to choose between immediate feedback and feedback in the end. I chose
the first (even though it was more difficult) because according to
Skinner's principles immediate feedback promotes learning
in such occasions.
That means that my script is in constant communication with the server
and answers are being treated each time separately.
This fact causes the loss of the previous data. I solved this problem
by submitting the values of the most important variables to the next
question and so on until the end. These variables are:
Conception and References
I thought quite a lot before creating this questionnaire. I came across
with many ideas but nothing seemed to be really worthing the idea of a
questionnaire. I wanted to make something that could be also educative
apart from being a simple test.
The idea with euro came to me just in time
when I was really worried, with the appearance of a leaflet that was
delivered in France in order to inform French citizens for the transitional
period of euro. It was only a few weeks left for this period and it seemed
to me very interesting when I realised reading it that there were a few things
that a lot of people still don't know.
Immediately it came to me that a
questionniare could be really useful to check the knowledge for such a crucial
subject and I thought that with an effective feedback someone could learn
and improve this knowledge spending only a few minutes. I decorated every
question with images of euro coins so as the user has a first idea of how
it looks like and the official symbols.
For this attempt my precious help was: (in random order)