Answers To Multiple Choice Questions

[Malcolm Lozada]

HiI'm working on the analysis of my data and I'm having a problem with the multiple choice questions that can get multiple answers.

This particular question consists of 22 different types of activities, which belong to 4 different categories (direct, indirect, consumptive and indoor). Now, I would like to see for each respondent, how many activities they have selected for each category --> e.g. 5 direct, 3 indirect, 2 consumptive, 0 indoor.

When exporting my data to SPSS, each choice exports as its own column header, rather than having it in one column. Is there a way to change this?

I have already tried to recode my values for this question by assigning a number to each activity based on their category to make the analysis easier, but this way it doesn't register the amount of times category 1, 2, 3 or 4 is chosen.

Does anyone have a solution to this?

IsabelleS I don't see a way to change the export for SPSS directly in the export options. You can do it in multiple steps by downloading as CSV and making sure that Split multi-value fields into columns is not checked. You will then have to import your CSV file to SPSS.

Assuming you leave these 22 variables as their own columns and the code as 1 for selected in each column (e.g., not 1 through 22) you can use SPSS to sum certain variables.

IF Columns 1 and 2 are the ones that are direct then in SPSS you can go to:

1) Transform

2) Computer Variable

Target Variable fill in "CountDirect"

In numeric expression you click on the variables for "Column 1" then put a plus sign and click on the variable for "Column 2"

This will result in a value of 0-2. And show the count of direct variables selected by your participant. You just need to repeat and expand that formula for your four sets of activities.

Thank you so much! Unfortunately the steps you described didn't give me the results I was after, but did put me on the right track. I instead ended up using the "count values within cases" option under the transform tab, and then it worked perfectly!

This answer seems to be outdated. I could use an updated answer, help?

I have a multiple choice question with choices, however I require the person completing this question to be only able to select 3 of them. The question says, "Choose three names below".

Can you limit the amount of choices selected in a multiple choice question? Obviously you can make it a "single answer" multiple choice question but what I need is more like a "triple answer" multiple choice question.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Hi JulesSnarr

Yes, thats possible. Change an "Answer type" to allow multiple answer to get checkboxes.

Then you have to scroll down to "add validation" and turn it on. Then chose "answer range" and set your min / max answers that you like to have.

Does this help?

Hi,

I have a multiple choice question with 9 choices, however I require the person completing this question to be only able to select 3 of them. The question is: "When you are deciding which degree to pursue, what type of questions are most important to you? Choose three".

There is another follow up question for each of the three choices selected so I have used Loop & Merge for this, which works well.

Can you limit the amount of choices selected in a multiple choice question? Obviously you can make it a "single answer" multiple choice question but what I need is more like a "triple answer" multiple choice question.

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks

John

Im new to Storyline and Im testing around. Ive tried to add a multiple choice question, which worked fine but there is always only one correct option you can set. Is there a way, to set more than 1 correct answer?

Lets say I got a question with 4 Answer Options, and 1+3 are correct but 2+4 not. So how could I set that up in storyline since there is only the option to set 1 correct answer?

Thank you for your help :)

You should follow the web conventions of radio buttons for single select and check boxes for multiple select, this helps reduce the cognitive load as users will list your course with preconceptions built form years on the web

I recently had a similar requirement. Based on the answer to the first question, the user will be directed to 2 different paths with subsequent questions. Here, I selected the multiple choice question with radio button. I selected the score by choice option that allowed me to choose a specific path. I disabled the feedback option to avoid confusions. You could create layers to provide feedback based on the solution.

The Submit button will then pass on T/F as the answer.

(This is the same type of method provided in a different help question I've come across on these forums, so if my suggestion works, thanks goes to the original poster.)

You will also have to set up a state to ensure that one of the numbers (1,2,3,4) is selected before Submit can be clicked on.

Quick question, is it currently possible to give 100% credit to a question for 3 of the possible answers (let's call them A, B, C) out of 4? I know you can use regrade to give full credit for 2 possible answers, and there is an option to give everyone a point regardless of their response in a question. But I'm not sure how to go about granting students who answered A, B, C full credit while giving students who answered D no credit.

I did an analysis of Multiple Answer questions a couple of months ago in the document Understanding Multiple Answers Questions that explains how and why multiple answer questions work the way they do. The functionality you're asking for does not exist within Canvas. It was not mentioned in the documentation for any of the other LMS players that I looked at, either.

I'm working (although work is stalled right now) on an application that will allow instructors to change how multiple answer questions are graded, but I hadn't planned on putting that type of grading into the system. Someone who knew how to program a little could probably add it.

As you mentioned, the regrade option is not an option. The Canvas documentation How do I regrade a multiple answers quiz question? that you were looking at has a note that says "Note: The Award points for both corrected and previously correct answers option is not available for this question type."

There is another option that can help with step 3. That's going to the Quiz Statistics page and generating the student analysis. It will tell you which students gave which answers and so you can get a list of students who marked option D and then look for just those students rather than scrolling through all of them checking.

Realize that some student's grades may go down, but most should go up. If a student had marked 2 or more of the correct responses while also marking the incorrect response D, then they had some partial credit before and this will change them to a 0. That's the way that multiple answer questions are designed to work. The grade will go up for students who avoided the incorrect response D but didn't check all three of the correct ones. This is likely the scenario if the instructions were to "Choose any correct answer".

If you have a lot of these questions, you will want to rethink how you ask them. Multiple answer questions are intended when you want people to mark all of the correct responses, not one of the correct responses. I make it a point to stress that to my students when I give them a quiz. Multiple answer questions are not designed for "Check any correct response" and the only way I know of do that right now to treat it like that is to do a manual regrade.

For this particular question, you could easily use a multiple choice question and ask "Which of the following is not a correct response?". Unfortunately, not all questions can be worded that way and you can't go back and change the question type once it's been given.

If you question had been a [poorly designed] multiple choice question with three correct responses, you could use the regrade option for multiple choice questions three times: How do I regrade a multiple choice quiz question? Start with question A as the right right response in the question. Then regrade with option B being right and choosing the option to award points for both correct responses (the top one where no scores will be reduced). Then regrade it again with option C being right.

That really isn't recommended as multiple choice questions should have just one correct answer. Students who chose B or C the first time would initially think they had the wrong answer until you went through and did the regrade and it's also confusing during an exam to have to choose one answer when there are three that are correct.

Likewise, multiple answer questions should have all correct responses graded, not just choosing any one correct response. That said, multiple answer questions are easily misunderstood and you can't undo it once the quiz has been given, you can only change the questions going forward.

The first time I used multiple answer questions, I thought it was an easy way to ask five true-false questions with a common scenario, which is the "percent correct" method mentioned in my analysis. That was how the other software I used graded things and so I didn't know to research it and see that there was another way. I had to manually go back and regrade that question for everyone. Then I made a quiz about taking Canvas quizzes and talked about multiple choice, multiple answer, and numeric answer questions to make sure the students understood what was going on in each of those.

If you are OK with the student getting partial credit, the Multiple Answer option in quizzes may work for what you need. With Multiple answers you can allow a student to select up to three answers and still get credit. It would look something like this:

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