psyquest: PsychtestR Questionnaire Implementations

This package contains a set of standard questionnaires as psychTestR models.

Manual

For more detailed information about psyquest, an instruction, and examples see the "Introduction to psyquest": https://shiny.gold-msi.org/psyquest-documentation/

Video tutorial

Watch our tutorial with an installation guide and an example: https://shiny.gold-msi.org/psyquest-tutorial/

Citation

We also advise mentioning the software versions you used, in particular the versions of the psyquest, and psychTestR packages. You can find these version numbers from R by running the following commands:

library(psychTestR)
library(psyquest)
if (!require(devtools)) install.packages("devtools")
x <- devtools::session_info()
x$packages[x$packages$package %in% c("psyquest", "psychTestR"), ]

Installation instructions (local use)

1. If you don't have R installed, install it from here: https://cloud.r-project.org/

2. Open R.

3. Install the ‘devtools’ package with the following command:

install.packages('devtools')

4. Install psyquest:

devtools::install_github('fmhoeger/psyquest')

Usage

Testing a participant

The XYZ_standalone() functions are designed for real data collection. In particular, the participant doesn't receive feedback during this version.

# Load the psyquest package
library(psyquest)

# Run the test as if for a participant, using default settings,
# saving data, and with a custom admin password
XYZ_standalone(admin_password = "put-your-password-here")

Replace 'XYZ' with one of the following three-letter acronyms:

• CCM (Concurrent Musical Activities)
• CMT (Competence focus in Music Teaching)
• DAC (Drama Activity)
• DEG (Demographics)
• GMS (Goldsmith Musical Sophistication Index)
• GRT (Short Grit Scale)
• HOP (Children’s Hope Scale)
• MHE (Musical Home Environment)
• PAC (Physical Activity)
• SDQ (Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (mental health))
• SEM (School Engagement Measurement)
• SES (Socio-economic Status)
• SOS (Student Opinion Scale)
• TOI (Theory of Intelligence)
• TOM (Theory of Musicality)
• TPI (Ten Item Personality Inventory)

You will need to enter a participant ID for each participant which will be stored along with the participants' results.

Each time you test a new participant, rerun the XYZ_standalone() function, and a new participation session will begin.

You can retrieve your data by starting up a participation session, entering the admin panel using your admin password, and downloading your data. For more details on the psychTestR interface, see http://psychtestr.com/.

psyquest currently supports English (EN) and German (DE). You can select one of these languages by passing a language code as an argument to XYZ_standalone(), e.g. XYZ_standalone(languages = "de"), or alternatively by passing it to the browser as a URL parameter, eg. http://127.0.0.1:4412/?language=DE (note that the p_id argument must be empty).

Installation instructions (Shiny Server)

1. Complete the installation instructions for 'local use' described above.

2. If not already installed, install Open Source Shiny Server from

https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/download-server/

3. Navigate to the Shiny Server app directory.

cd /srv/shiny-server

4. Create a directory which will contain your new Shiny app:

sudo mkdir psyquest

5. Create a text file in this directory called app.R which specifies the R code to run the app.

• Open the app.R in a text editor.

sudo nano psyquest/app.R

Paste below code into it replacing 'XYZ' with the three-letter acronym of the corresponding questionnaire.

library(psyquest)
XYZ_standalone(admin_password = "put-your-password-here")

• Save the file (CTRL-O).

6. Change the permissions of your app directory to allow psyquest to write its temporary files.

sudo chown -R shiny psyquest

where shiny is the username for the Shiny process user (this is the usual default).

7. Navigate to your new shiny app, with a URL similar to http://my-web-page.org:3838/psyquest

Usage notes

• The psyquest participation sessions run in your web browser.