constructMap 4.5.0 (10/20/2009) - transposed the view of the import wizard - added SEM graph - modified Item Cumulative Probability graph to include color and a clickable vertical bar to help identify probabilities on the curve - fixed item fit graph's infit table values to be correctly positioned. - Disabled the EAP integration/node options to default to monte carlo with 2000 nodes - Changed all reports to use the default of monte carlo 2000 node if EAP is selected as the ability report - Fixed 2 discrepencies in Item Fit calculations - Fixed total maximum score values for the by parameter Item fit report to include only the scored items, not all items in student scoring ConstructMap 4.4.0 (11/7/2008) - fixed bug about system crash during missing categories dialog showing - fixed bug about system crash due to adding an item manually after importing a dataset - reports: profile map is disabled due to a bug - importwizard: Now all numeric responses that are 0-9 are used as valid responses and are mapped to irt scores. Gaps are closed so the scores are collapsed if there is missing data. - importwizard: radio buttons are selected by default in the preview page of the wizard. First column is selected as respondent id and the rest as item type. - installer: Replaced links and checkbox in the finishg page of installer for Quick start guide with Online User guide - menu: Renamed Edit->Add Row to Add Student since it doesn't work as adding a row of whatever tab we are in. - importwizard: fixed the calibration bug where the program error occured (due to protected GoMap.jar one class using a logger from another) - importwizard: made the code java 1.5 compatible for Mac OSX - importwizard: fixed the problem of empty rows or empty columns due to cleared content on the excel sheet. The rows with no student name are ignored, and item/demog columns with no header cell (when first row is headre) are given an automatic item name (Item x, where x is the column number, same with Demog x) - importwizard: made grammar changes/corrections to all the messages/text that was outlined in Import Wizard Feedback - importwizard: changed file chooser button from "Save Project" to "Open" - importwizard: preview table: fixed only show the size you need to show in table, only as much as there is data, no empty space in scroll pane - importwizard: preview table: enlarge font, word wrap for top message ConstructMap 4.3.15 (?/?/2008) - fixed being unable to delete the last Criterion Zone. - removed the cancel button from Edit Probability Definition dialog - item set name added to Item Estimates and Fit Graph report - fixed WrightMap report title overwriting other report titles - disallowed the deletion of all target prob. definitions - fixed cut/copy/paste bug for student tab. It now works for PC as well as Mac - fixed the improper display of filter texts when more than one filter is applied` ConstructMap 4.3.14 (3/20/2008) - fixed add student crashing when entered large quantities of students or pressing cancel didn't work correctly - limited add student quanitity to 1000 - fixed save project as project so that it is remembered regardless of new project, closing or uninstalling/re-installing the program (defect 73) - connected save project as with open in terms of last saved/opened location if a project opened, the location is remembered by save as, vice-versa. (defect 73) - Disabled tooltip on menu all commands (defect 56) - fixed not recognizing integer values in real number format (4.0 etc.) for max score during import. - fixed pasting multiple rows from excel into Constructmap created an empty cell where it shouldn’t have - fixed Fit Graph of items and Fit Graph of steps crashing - Fixed the problem of running fit statistics on a multi form project crashes when you run the report on the second form - Fixed scaling problem for icc and item cumulative reports (defect 81) (3/7/2008) - Added number of students and the filtering information to the Group Performance Report, - Added filtering information to the Correlation and Correlate Forms Report. - Modified Frequency Map number of student and filtering information so that the number of students is on a separate line from the filtering information. - Fixed the bug for copy, cut, and paste from the menu for both pc and mac - Fixed the bug associated with duplicate item name not being recognized when the name of one item set is changed to another item set name. - moved setup demo projects under Help - Demo projects sub menu - fixed the problem with items tab not refreshing after calibration - fixed tab delimited import not counting number of items due to missing data columns - fixed save project as so that it remember the last selected destination folder - fixed save project as bug on not saving projects when it wasn't previously saved ConstructMap 4.3.13: ( 2/26/2008) - added to the answer key legend what raw code meant, fixed wording on meaning of N/A - fixed defaut report options to include item fit table by default - Fixed out of memory message to say ConstructMap instead of GradeMap - Changed title of File browser dialog for importing items (through standard method) to "Import Model Spefication from Items File" from the generic "Import data file" - Implemented import wizard with no options to accept tab delimited data file with simple import assumptions - Added answer key functionality to ascii and tab delimited imports to preserve raw responses and use the answer key to map them to scores - added cut, copy, paste menu commands as place holders, disabled at the moment - Implemented 2 file standard open feature, performing imports for model specification and student (if user cancels the model specification import, user is not prompted for the second import. - Changed My notes label of "Module Notes" to "Project Notes" - fixed the problem of having "N/A" instead of "." for missing repsponses during ascii and tab delimited imports - fixed the ordering of responses in the answer key - Implemented the new menu structure - Made open submenu items prompt user to remove the current project first instead of having them do new project manually -Changed default item names to Item 1, Item 2...etc and variable to Construct 1, Construct2, ..etc - fixed an error that get thrown during save as that assumed gomap.dbf exists always. - answer key table is now editable - added legend to the bottom of the answer key table to explain the difference between '.' and 'NA' - removed the date column from the items table - items table is now editable: - changing the maximum score deletes item parameters - can paste item set information or right click on the cell to get a dialog box where you can choose the appropriate item set ConstuctMap 4.3.12: - Item Cumulative Probability Curve and Item Characteristic Curve report options no longer requests the itemset and an item as it is unnecessary, intead just an item is requested. - ConstructMap displays a warning when attempting to calibrate items and any one of the items has parameters - a bug with regards to double clicking on student spreadsheet after scrolling down, scrolling it backup unexpectedly is fixed - Save As feature implemented to save the currently open project to a desired folder. Folder chooser dialog is started at "project" folder under installation directory. - Max score for edit Item window is shown as an integer rather than real number. - Export Model Specificaton now exports max scores as integers rather than real numbers. - "Alternate Forms Reliability" report name from menu is changed to "Correlate Forms" - "Correlation Report" report name is changed to "Correlate Groups" - implemented intelligent choosing of integration method depending number of dimensions. For 2 or less dimensions, system sets integration method to Quadrature, otherwise Monte Carlo. - proficiency estimation method is to to "EAP" by default - itemset for estimation for calibration process is automatically selected as the first itemset with no parameters - changed default title of Alternate Forms Reliability (now called Correlate Forms ) to "Alternate Forms Analysis" - Added a blank line between Alternate Forms Reliability (now called Correlate Forms ) header and body of the report - Modifyed Test Information Curve report options window to have "All cases" as one of the options for cases to include instead of "All" - added a prompt to confirm if user already exported conquest files during import conquest parameters command execution ConstructMap 4.2.10: - Added cutpoint lines to the text wright map - Added attribute editing feature for items, item sets, cutpoints, item categories and variables under System->Edit Attributes - Created another view table within ConstructMap to see the item categories (item codes) and their attributes GradeMap 4.2.8 Release: (4/6/06) - Added item set information to Test Information Curve. - Added item linking - Added an uneditable "Row" column to the students table to give an easy row #. - Added means of fit statistics to the item estimates and fit report - Added means of fit statistics to the Full Ability Estimates report - bug in DPV algorithm which caused some estimations to crash has been fixed. GradeMap 4.2.7 Release: (2/22/06) - Removed item difficulty lower and upper bounds. GradeMap 4.2.6 Release: (2/2/06) - Renamed Kid Map to Diagnostic Map - Improved error messages for Simple Import - Fixed error with item fit statistics report when there was an extra variable with no items associated with it. - Suggestions and Variables definitions can now be modified through the Reports&Maps->Report Options dialog - Added a more meaningful legend to the performance maps - Cronbach's alpha miscalculation in the student ability report has been fixed. The miscalculation occured when the user chose a specific instrument instead of computing all of the active items - Item Tracking map's score values now work correctly with values smaller than 1 GradeMap 4.2.3 Release: (12/12/05) - Fixed person fit problem with full ability report - Fixed mac permission problems - added itemset editing table for easy target logit editing - added filtering alphanumerically or text, when filtering students - simple import error messages modified - when creating an item, the first variable is automatically selected for you. - construct map graphical report added GradeMap 4.2.1 Release: (11/3/05) - Fixed Graphical KidMap crash when run before the text KidMap - Changed report wizard dialogs which get too long to be multi-page dialogs. GradeMap 4.2 Release: (10/01/05) - Fixed Plausible Value proficiency method std. error bug - Some of the Report Options are now shared and can be "remembered" from one report to the next, for example selecting a specific item set on a report should persist when a different report is asked for - Test Information curve created - Fixed Itanal to wrap around - Fixed Kidmap fit calculations to match Full ability Estimates report -Margin changes accomodated - "=" or "-" overflow resolved - Page height is set to 57 rows so page break works properly (I tried 59 but that was too much, word seems to accomodate 57 rows for courier 10pt. - Affected reports are WrightMap, Kidmap and Student ability reports -Kidmap changes - Infit and t stats is shown as separate line - Outfit and t stats followes the infit line - Ability line is shown preceeding fit lines - Those changes are reflected onto both version of Kidmap -Ability Report Changes - Full ability report - now shows outfit values GradeMap 4.1.4 Release: (7/7/05) - Fixed Multidimensional Case Fit calculations GradeMap 4.1.3 Release: (6/30/05) - Fixed Case fit calculations for Rating Scale model - Fixed the bug for Dichotomous demo crash upon running ability reports - Disabled multidimensional case fit calculations - Added "Show estimate type" option to all 3 Ability reports (to show/hide Estimate type on the title) - Added "Imported Matrices" option to import xi,design, scoring matrices for custom models ability estimation in ability reports - Created Brief Ability By Level Report - shows cases and abilities sectioned off into ability/Criterion zone groups - requires definition of Criterion zones - includes a summary for each ability/level section - For Classical Item Statistics Report, - changed the categories shown to of individual items instead of maximum number of categories. - added multi-lined student raw responses corresponding to it recoded category. GradeMap 4.1.2 Release: - Import Parameters from Conquest for PC models now work - Fixed problem with RS import/export from conquest GradeMap 4.1.1 Release (4/29/05): - Person fit calculation fixed for cases with missing responses - Execute Conquest, some errors/bugs fixed. - Correlation Report and Alternate Forms Reliability Report added under Estimation Tasks->Results Menu - Alternate Forms Reliability Report removed from Reports & Maps->Group Menu GradeMap 4.1 Release (4/15/05): - Item Calibration (Compute Item Parameters) can now be performed on a specified item set - Added notification of whether filters are on/off in the Item Calibration options. - Added Filter Students menu option under Reports & Maps which does not allow the user to Recalibrate Items. - Conquest Export now also dumps out the item parameters into .diffs file - Edit Demographic menu option added under System Menu. - Correlation report no longer allows users to correlate on demographics with more than 2 categories - Internal Consistency now reads as Cronbach's Alpha in item analysis report - Created Alternate Forms Reliability report under "Reports & Maps"-> Group Reports - Log rotation implemented - Graphical wright map version 1, implemented - filter students bug which happened when someone entered a max value, but no min value has been fixed. - in students.txt relaxed to accept , , ... , , - in students.txt relaxed to accept and as well - if an answerkey is provided in students.txt, the default recoding from 0 to 0, 1 to 1, 2 to 2, etc. is preserved unless otherwise stated. In other words, you no longer need to define a simple mapping if you have some extra codes you need to recode. - When creating a new variable, covariances are automatically set to 0 for the other variables that are already defined - Item view tab created for item viewing, currently uneditable - Answerkey view tab created for answerkey viewing, uneditable - Changed "Add Demog. Field" menu option to "Add Demographic" - Changed "Delete Demog. Field" menu option to "Delete Demographic" - Added step labels for variables, which can be edited through the criterion zone dialog (accessed through Edit Variable) - Added option to textual wrightmap to display step labels either numerically (as before) or to use the step labels defined for the variables (if no step labels are defined, numerical values are still displayed) - Excluded column added to the student view. When a check mark is placed on the excluded column for a student, they are not included in any of the calculations or in any of the reports. This can be a useful alternative to using filters if you only need to exclude specific students from your reports/calculations. - Display Excluded Column menu option added (under View) to allow the displaying or hiding of the Excluded Column in the student view. - Show Recoded Values menu option added (under View) to display the student scores once the Answer Key has been applied. When in this mode, no editing of student scores is allowed. - Show Filtered Students only menu option added (under View) to display only the students after the filtering and excluded students have been taken into account. - Bin Width option added to Graphical Wright Map and Class Map which allows you to specify the width of the bar in the frequency map. - Class Map name changed to Frequency Map - Added Display Range option to Frequency Map, Performance Map and Activity Averaging Map report wizards. - Group performance map generated. Viewable under Groups & Maps->Group Reports - Other minor bug fixes GradeMap 4.0 Release 2/24/05: - 'm' option in model specification file works. - multi dimensional rating scale item fit statistics fixed. - correlation report maps discrete values starting from 0 on, instead of from 1. - Updated project file error give the user the option to attempt to recover the old project - Item Fit Graph by parameters changed to Item Fit Graph of steps - Class Map, gave user the option to change the bar color - Class Map, added variable information to the subtitle - Continuous demographics can contain blanks, for unknown/empty cells - Closing GradeMap by closing the window now saves the items.txt and students.txt if user requests to save - Fixed paste bug which caused an empty copied cell to be pasted in two columns - Fixed model export bug which caused cutpoints to be saved twice - Other minor bug fixes GradeMap 4.0 Release 2/17/05: - student exporting saved incorrect answer key fixed. - class demographic is no longer a required field when importing - item set and item can be separated into two rows in the student import file, instead of requiring a : separator - Title option seemed to appear for several wizards where it was not required - Report Options made to use a similar order from one report to another - file dialogs "remember" where you last left off, instead of always defaulting to the projects directory - duplicate item set options appearing in report options after item set translation changed - fixed cell highlighting problem which appeared on some Windows machines - fixed max table cell borders not being visible - aligned decimal places in Item Calibration Window - demographics can now be given an undefined values (a blank) for values which are unknown. For example if gender is defined as Male and Female, valid cell values are "Male", "Female" and ""