Assessment Item Banks

Towards the end of 2006 the JISC CETIS Metadata & Digital Repository and Assessment SIGs, with support from the JISC Digital Repositories Programme, held a  joint meeting to discuss the overlap of Assessment Item Banks (collections of question and test material) and Repositories. The consensus of the meeting was that item banks can to a large extent be conceived as specialized repositories for a particular type of resource, and that established best practice in repository interoperability could be beneficially applied to item banks.

Following the meeting, and also with JISC DRP support, we commissioned two papers: one to describe technical aspects of item bank repositories, the other to describe the requirements from the organizational / user's point of view. We also wrote a short briefing paper on the topic. These publications are available online:


 * What is assessment item banking A JISC CETIS briefing by Rowin Young and Phil Barker, Repository and Assessment domain coordinators.
 * Other formats: [[Media:What-is-assessment-item-banking.doc|.doc version]] | [[Media:What-is-assessment-item-banking.pdf|.pdf version]]


 * Assessment item banks and repositories A JISC CETIS paper by Sarah Currier, Product Manager, Intrallect Ltd.
 * Other formats: [[Media:Assessment_Item_Banks_and_Repositories.doc|.doc version]] | [[Media:Assessment-item-banks-and-repositories.pdf|.pdf version]]


 * Assessment item banks: an academic perspective A JISC CETIS paper by Dick Bacon, Senior Lecturer (HEA Consultant), University of Surrey.
 * Other formats: [[Media:Assessment-item-banks-an-academic-perspective.doc|.doc version]] | [[Media:Assessment-item-banks-an-academic-perspective.pdf|.pdf version]]

If would like to discuss any of the issues raised in these papers, you may post to either or both of the JISC CETIS Assessment and Metadata and Digital Repository JISCMail lists. --Philb 09:54, 4 June 2007 (BST)