Assessment SIG 270109



QTI: where are we and where are we going?
Steve Lay, Questionmark and Pierre Gorissen,SURF



Mapping item types between VLEs and QTI
Niall Barr, University of Glasgow



Questionmark web services
John Kleeman, Questionmark



MathsAssess
Leslie Fletcher, Liverpool John Moores University, Sue Milne, ELandWeb, James Annersley, Kingston University



Review of Advanced Assessment Techniques
Myles Danson, JISC



Review of eAssesment Quality
Lester Gilbert, University of Southampton - coming soon!

Defining a pragmatic QTI profile
Wilbert Kraan, JISC CETIS



QTI: where are we and where are we going?
Steve Lay (Questionmark) and Pierre Gorissen (SURF) are familiar faces to the SIG, not least because of their long involvement with and co-chairing of the IMS QTI working group. With both Steve and Pierre moving on to other roles and QTI v2.1 effectively complete although still to receive its final release, this session will update SIG members on the current position of the specification and possible future developments.

Mapping item types between VLEs and QTI
Niall Barr, University of Glasgow. Niall will present his recent work on mapping item types from VLEs onto QTI 2.*, and demonstrate a simple tool to help with the conversion.

QuestionMark Web Services
John Kleeman, Chairman of Questionmark. Questionmark web services provide a way of potentially interfacing into Questionmark from other systems. Additionally, Questionmark have a new web service for importing questions as XML that could potentially be used to get QTI from open source systems into Questionmark Perception.

Defining a pragmatic QTI profile
Presentation and discussion session led by Wilbert Kraan of JISC CETIS. This session will explore the interest in and demand for a potential JISC CETIS working group to develop an application profile of IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) v2.1 for the UK Higher and Further Education communities.

IMS QTI v2.1 has been available in public draft form since 2006, with an addendum released in April 2008. Final release of the specification has stalled due to the requirement for profile development imposed by IMS, which may have had an impact on uptake of the specification beyond implementations such as the JISC funded AQuRate, ASDEL and Minibix projects. Work is currently underway within IMS's K12 Common Cartridge (CCK12) working group to produce an update to the Common Cartridge specification which may include a full profile of QTI 2.1.

The proposed JISC CETIS working group would draw together representatives from a range of stakeholder groups within the UK education sector to identify requirements for a QTI 2.1 profile which can be presented to IMS through the CCK12 for release as a formal IMS application profile. This would have the dual benefits of making available a profile which may encourage further uptake of the QTI 2.1 specification and ensuring that UK requirements are accommodated within a future version of Common Cartridge.

Depending on the outcomes of this session, the meeting will conclude with the outlining of a future roadmap for this work and identification of working group members.