Truplex: Thompson-QM: On-line Tutorial: Monitoring Results

Thompson records all events/actions associated with a quiz into a special log file, called the results log.
You can find this file in the data/logs folder within the Thompson root folder.
Navigating to the results log file in Windows Explorer.

Navigating to the results log file in Windows Explorer.

The file is plain text so it will open in any text editor application you have installed on your computer (e.g. Notepad, Word).

Interpreting the Results

For each quiz that is played you will see a record similar to:

GAME START (16:52:10 11/12/2006)
Game mode: Find first letter for each word
Using question categories: [animals,fruit&veg]
Total number of questions: 29
/ Q:Pepper C:fruit&veg
X Q:Kiwi C:fruit&veg
/ Q:Cows C:animals
/ Q:Broccoli C:fruit&veg
/ Q:Cat C:animals
X Q:Donkey C:animals
/ Q:Onion C:fruit&veg
/ Q:Tomato C:fruit&veg
/ Q:Duck C:animals
/ Q:Carrot C:fruit&veg
X Q:Pig C:animals
GAME EXIT (16:53:41 11/12/2006)
Total of 8 correct answers from 11 questions asked.

The most important aspects of each quiz record are:

Line 2,
which indicates which quiz mode was being played.
Line 3,
which indicates which categories Thompson was asking questions from.
The last line,
which summarises the result of the quiz.

From the start and end times you can also calculate how long was taken to answer the questions.

When monitoring your child's progress it is important to identify any particular questions they are struggling to answer correctly.
For this reason Thompson generates a line for each question asked, stating:

Whether the question was answered correctly
(/ for a correct answer; X for a wrong answer).
The name of the question.
The category the question came from.

This may look like information overload at first, but identifying the questions your child is finding tough is a key feature of Thompson.