When I first started teaching AP Psychology in 1999, I’d been given a sizeable binder to accompany the textbook by David G Myers. The binder had questionnaires and in-class versions of standard instruments used by clinical psychologists and researchers. In 1999, I just photocopied these for use in class. When the school went 1:1 with iPads, I began distributing the same instruments as PDFs.
In both cases, scoring was troublesome. Sometimes scores need to be reversed; other times only some questions are added. I’d project the scoring guides on the screen for students to self-score their PDFs — but it was a time-consuming element which was sometimes hard to justify with just 50-minute classes (in 1999) and either 55- or 70-minute classes in 2026. Below, by way of example, is the scoring guideline for Rotter’s Locus of Control scale.
I’ve wanted to host these same instruments on a webpage, and have the students’ responses scored server-side or in their browser — but I didn’t (and don’t) have the coding abilities for that. Nor did I have server-space to host these pages.
Both of these problems have now been solved. The former by using Claude and the later with GitHub Pages.
For example, here is the aforementioned Locus of Control scale by Rotter: https://eecastro.github.io/locus_classroom/
As I convert more of my old worksheets from PDF to webpage, they’ll appear in my GitHub: https://github.com/eecastro
