Learnosity and Learnosity Types

Learnosity is a company whose services CourseKata uses to create, store, and serve questions in our online textbooks and learnosity types refer to the type of the question.

What is a Learnosity question?

Questions are Learnosity’s smallest assessment unit. They can be grouped with other questions to form an Item. It’s also possible for an Item to include just one Question. Items can be grouped into Activities, but to date CourseKata has used Activities only for our surveys.

For most research purposes, you want to use lrn_question_reference because it is a unique identifier for each question.

If I see a question in a chapter, how can I find the question reference?

The item_id is in the bottom left of each Learnosity window. In the data, you should look up item_id and look up the Learnosity question position (lrn_question_position) to identify the lrn_question_reference. Alternatively, you can search for the question in the prompt variable.

What are Learnosity types?

Learnosity types refer to the type of the question, such as multiple choice question (mcq), shorttext, plaintext, rating, datacamp, etc. Below, you’ll find examples of different Learnosity types.

Example lrn_type

“association”

“choicematrix”

“clozeassociation”

“formulaV2” (a numerical input required)

“imageclozeassociation”

“mcq” some mcq items have only 1 correct answer; others are “check all that apply”

“plaintext”

“shorttext”

“sortlist”