Thankyou Mark.  My HTML is definitely not up to this job, but at least
I have some pointers of where to head.  Entirely see your point about
being both Nervous and Not nervous - both from an existential and a
programming perspective!

Best,

Dickon

On 16 Apr, 17:54, "Mark S." <throa...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Following some help from Eric Shulman, I wrote myself a routine that
> collects information from an HTML form, runs it through a format
> string, and places it somewhere inside of an existing tiddler.
>
> This kind of routine could probably be modified to create a brand new
> tiddler with questionnaire results. I haven't posted it anywhere
> (except once somewhere in this forum) but I could again if there is
> interest.
>
> You would have to rewrite your quiz as a real HTML form, though. You
> use checkboxes throughout, but radio buttons would be more
> appropriate. As it is, someone could be simultaneously Nervous and
> Certainly Not Nervous. You know, I've had days like that.
>
> In order to be useful for later processing, you would want to think
> about how the results are organized. I'm guessing that putting each
> answer into a slice would be most appropriate
>
> q1: 1 <answer is 1 to 3>
> q2: 3
>  ...
>
> In any event, the final results need to be in some format that TW can
> easily grab. There are also sections, data fields and the <data>
> plugin, but to me this seems most easy to edit any mistakes.
>
> And of course, each questionnaire would be tagged as "SDQResults" (or
> something).
>
> Then you could write, or have written a routine in a tiddler that
> would process each tiddler, and apply whatever process you want
> (sorry, I didn't look at your PDF).
>
> Just some thoughts,
>
> -- Mark
>
> On Apr 15, 4:11 pm, dickon <dickon.beving...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi.  following on from my intro about the TiddlyManual project the
> > other day (novel manualization of psychiatry/psychotherapy
> > interventions), I have two more specific and technical questions.
>
> > First, I'd like to be able to make forms out of a tiddler so that the
> > user can type information straight in without having to switch to the
> > edit mode (whcih would scare the most technophobic therapists!) - I am
> > sure this can be done, but I can't work it out - sorry.
>
> > Then, I'd like to be able to sort out a simple algorithm to "score" a
> > particular questionnaire called the SDQ (Strengths and difficulties
> > Questionnaire -http://www.sdqinfo.com/questionnaires/english/c3.pdf).
> > This is a very simple and mercifully short questionnaire that is
> > surprisingly valid at highlighting clinical vulnerability in children,
> > and has been tried out on zillions of children worldwide; it also
> > seems to pick up clinically-useful CHANGE over time (helping us
> > measure whether we are doing any good or not).
>
> > The Q's are divided into a number of sub-sets that address specific
> > symptom areas (Emotional symptoms, Conduct problems, Hyperactivity,
> > Peer problems, and Pro-social features) and each Question is scored
> > Not, Somewhat or Certainly true... so it is a question of assigning
> > certain scores to certain tick-boxes (see the scoring system 
> > here:http://www.sdqinfo.com/ScoreSheets/e2.pdf) , and also assigning
> > certain sets of tick-boxes to the different symptom areas.  Ideally
> > I'd generate a score at the end that consists of sub-scores within
> > each of the symptom areas mentioned above.
>
> > I can make the boxes 
> > (seehttp://burningchrome.com:8090/bags/IMP/tiddlers.wiki
> > and search SDQ to see where I've got to...), but getting into the
> > further details required to generate a score defeats me!
>
> > Best wishes,
>
> > Dickon Bevington
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