New features in the works for HamTesting.com
May 13, 2008I’ve been working on a new set of features revolving around tracking user’s statistics relating to their performance with the question pools. I am now tracking information about each question a logged-in user sees, whether they answer it correctly and a timestamp. At the moment this information is simply being logged to a database without any visible changes to the system. I’m going to let this data accumulate over a week or two period until I have a decent set of data to test the new features.
It’s probably obvious if you think about it, but adaptive learning is really what I’m implementing here, as well as the ability for the user to see how they perform with each section and even each question. I’ll be able to show a user a graph of their performance with each question, section over time no matter whether they are simply doing practice test after practice test, or are systematically reviewing the question pools with the review tools.
This will generate a new study tool as well, because I will be able to generate tests in real-time that give them exposure to questions they haven’t seen before, or questions that they have had problems answering. It should be another fairly useful way for people to prepare for the amateur radio tests. It will also give me a chance to play with more featurs in jpgraph and to finally dig into the generation of sparklines.
In addition I’ve been working on a couple of other features that aren’t related to the above that should get hamtesting.com a lot of exposure in a very short amount of time. I’ll be announcing these new tools/features soon and at that time I’ll try to map out for you my strategy for how this is going to work. Although sometimes it’s hard to map out a business strategy when my main primary intention is to provide these tools for free to the amateur radio community.
