Open-ended
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Open-ended questions capture audio or video of a test taker providing spontaneous answers to open-ended prompts such as "Who is your best friend and why?" No specific answer is expected.
With this question type, Speechace assesses the student's pronunciation, fluency, vocabulary, and grammar. Additionally, when used in conjunction with the relevance setting, this question type can also assess whether the test taker's response was relevant to the question.
To get started, do the following:
Select the Open-ended question type to display the associated configuration panel.
Type the instructions for the test taker either in the Question field on the left or the Instruction field on the right.
Some examples of open-ended questions:
"What is your favorite ice cream, and why?"
"Please tell me about a cultural celebration or tradition in your country."
The configuration panel for Open-ended question type consists of the following elements:
In this field, you provide instructions to the test taker in the form of an open-ended question. When combined with the relevance setting, the text in the Question Field helps the AI evaluate whether the test taker’s response is relevant to the question.
As the name suggests, this is an optional field. The Optional Instruction field allows you to provide instructions to the test taker while keeping the text in the Question Field hidden.
In some scenarios, the test creator might prefer not to display the Question Field's text to the test taker to prevent potential cheating through copying the question on tools like ChatGPT or because the question is already included in a cue card. However, they may still want to include the question for relevance setting to ensure the AI can assess the relevance of the test taker’s response.
In such cases, the test creator can add content for the AI to evaluate relevance in the Question Field. To prevent test takers from seeing this content, any instructions meant for them, such as "Review the cue card and answer the question," should be placed in the Optional Instruction field. The text in the Optional Instruction field will be visible to the test taker, while the content in the Question Field remains hidden.
The Cue Cards field is optional, but it allows you to provide additional context to the test taker by uploading 1-2 cue card images, one at a time.
You can upload a screenshot of text with more instructions, or a photo/illustration, or both. For example, your cue cards might look like this:
If you fill out only the Question field, it appears to the test taker as follows, with the question/instructions under the avatar.
If you fill out the Question field and also upload a text cue card, this appears to the test taker as follows (with the instructions under the avatar).
If you upload two cue cards (one text, one photo), they appear to the test taker as follows.
