Inversion of Control

[JWMB]

Has there been any discussion on making the individual tests more isolated/stand-alone from the rest of the framework?

I'm looking to host some of these tasks within a game-like environment (a WiP continuation / OSS version of the now-defunct Vektor where users train various cognitive tasks. On certain days in the training plan, they start the session by doing a test suite, and I want to expand on the tests I already have with ones from e.g. Levante/ROAR.

I've customized JsPsych so I can have better control over the execution, but using individual tests from this repo seems difficult, since there are many hard dependencies on the framework.

One way to facilitate this type of usage would be to inject the framework dependencies instead, e.g. instead of import { jsPsych } from '../taskSetup';, jsPsych would be an argument to the function (preferably typed as an interface rather than a concrete implementation).

(I'm not a JS/TS developer so maybe a different pattern is more idiomatic.)

[mcfrank]

Hi there, please note that our tasks are non-commercially licensed and ROAR's tasks are licensed with a more restrictive license (Stanford Academic License). If you're interested in an academic collaboration, please reach out.

Right now there is no plan to make LEVANTE tasks available standalone as many details of administration (especially including scoring, which is a key feature) are important for the LEVANTE framework. But the LEVANTE dashboard and tasks will be open to researchers, hopefully some time in mid 2026.

[JWMB]

Thanks for the quick response!
Gotcha, I hadn't checked the license yet - I just assumed it was copyleft-style (my project will be free/OSS, haven't decided on license yet).
In my use case, it's not essential that the tests are validated and standardized over vast/varied populations, so I think I'll be fine with my own implementations of common psychometric tests.

[mcfrank]

For many of our tasks, you have to use model-based scoring - they have customized stopping rules that mean that the scores will not be reasonable. Please do respect our licenses and do not use our code in commercial applications.