Creating a experiment where participants generate their own tests from a list of key terms
<p>I am looking to run an experiment and am hoping to do so through a computer program that I am anticipating creating; however, I am (very) fairly new at programming and am hoping to get some help.</p>

<p>Here is what I need...</p>

<p>I need to create a program that starts out by giving participants a paper that they will read for 20 minutes. After these 20 minutes, I need the program to move on to the next page which gives participants a list of say 10 words. On this page, I ask participants to choose 5 of these words. Participants have 5 minutes and cannot move on to the next page of return to the previous page. From here, I want the program to generate a test from multiple choice questions that I have already created, I guess in a database. I want the program to randomly pick 3 questions from the database that are linked to the 5 words the participants have chosen and 1 question from the 5 words that the participants did not choose. The test would then consist of 20 questions. Participants would take this test 10 minutes after they had chosen and submitted the 5 words; during these 10 minutes, I want the paper that was at the beginning of the program to appear. After ten minutes, participants would then have 25 minutes to complete the generated test. This will then complete this participant’s participation.</p>

<p>I have another idea that could be added to this but I wanted to see if this was a plausible idea before I moved on.</p>

<p>Is there a program that I can use to set this idea up in this way or will I need to learn some programming basics in order to obtain this?</p>

<p>I am not sure what tag to include with this post so I just added (naively) java, I hope this doesn't cause any issues.</p>

<p>Thank you for your time!
Julia</p>
