jwpo 0.0.2

Jared Warner's Personalized Opportunities

Jared Warner’s Personalized Opportunities (JWPO) is an Apache2 licensed tool for generating personalized tests.

Quickstart

Installing JWPO is simple with pip:

$ python -m pip install jwpo

You can run the tool with:

$ python -m jwpo --help

Notes

• Program

  • Inputs: Tex File, Gradebook File, Opportunity Number, Opportunity Name, Directory

  • Outputs: Dozens of PDFs

  • Write it defensively, catch errors early.

  • Make sure it works on Windows.

• TeX File

  • A1.1 – Outcome, Type, Variant – Label

  • Outcome: single character

  • Type: single digit integer

  • Variant: single digit integer

  • Variant maps to Opportunity

  • Introduction

    • Preamble is start of file to “%Start questions” line.

  • Student Name

    • Replace “studentName” with “First Last” of student.

  • Opportunity Name

    • Ask for opportunity name (text) and fill in for “opportunityName”.

  • Math Seed

    • Jared: each item needs to have its seed set explicitly if needed.

  • Number of Opportunity

    • Jared: renumber labels so that variant corresponds to opportunity number.

    • Ask for opportunity number (integer).

  • Structure/Format

    • Delete questions not matching opportunity/gradebook.

    • Remove variant identifier “.X”.

  • Identify Items

    • Start with “item[A1.1:]”

    • End with any of next item, or math set seed, or

  • Horizontal Rule

    • Only to occur between intro and outcome sections.

  • Outcome Header

    • Identified by “{bf …}”

    • Only to occur at start of outcomes given to students.

• Gradebook

  • Focus on MergeData sheet.

  • Student name is “[Nickname] [Last Name]”

  • Identifying Opportunities

    • Opportunity 1 is all green (automatically given)

    • Opportunity 2 is all blue (automatically given)

      • And some will see some of the green.

    • U outcome in Gradebook maps to F outcome in TeX File

    • Opportunity 3 is all yellow (automatically given)

      • J outcome does not map to TeX File (it’s a project)

    • Gray-colored outcomes should be ignored (it’s a project)

  • Identifying Columns

    • Ignore “AL” (Outcome-Letter “L”) total of other columns.

    • First question has value 2, 1, or 0.

    • Second and third questions has value 1 or 0.

    • The “W” column has value 1 or 0.

  • Logic for Questions

    • When the opportunity matches, then auto-given.

    • Else, when “W” column is 1 and question is not max, then given.

      • Outcomes that qualify must have been given in a previous opportunity.

    • Opportunities 5 and 6 have no auto-given questions.

  • Ordering

    • It’s OK for opportunities to be displayed in original order.

• Open Questions

  • How to map “blue” columns to Opportunity 1?

    • These are the auto-given questions.

    • Idea: Add spreadsheet with opportunity to outcome mapping.

Reference

• JWPO Documentation

• JWPO at PyPI

• JWPO at GitHub

• JWPO Issue Tracker

License

Copyright 2019 Grant Jenks

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.