e-Assessment Demonstrators strand : JISC

Start date: 1 March 2007

End date: 30 April 2008

JISC theme(s): e-Learning

Committees: JISC Learning and Teaching committee

Working Groups: e-Learning capital programme advisory board

JISC has funded 3 technical development projects to produce and test 3 open source software tools / systems implementing the QTI2.1 Specification. The systems to be developed include an Item authoring tool, Item bank Software and an Assessment delivery tool. The tools will be demonstrated in action on test data live from the developers own site. A downloadable product that can be installed and run from other sites will be produced. A report will be created outlining experiences of any development issues as well as evaluating and providing feedback on the QTI2.1 standards. The web service APIs developed as part of these projects will be submitted as service expressions in an appropriate service genre to the e-Framework.

Founded projects

Lead institution	Project name	Summary
Kingston University	AQuRate	The project will develop an open source, standards compliant and platform-independent tool to enable the authoring of question items conforming to the current IMS QTI 2 Specification. The core tool would be desktop-based system that enables the production of as wide a range of QTI 2.1 question types as is allowed in the project timescale. Question Items will be packaged as SCORM 2004 compliant IMS Content Packages. The Project aims to integrate the AQuRate Authoring Tool with the two other eAssessment components: namely Item Banking and Assessment Delivery. The aim is to create a full eAssessment lifecycle to promote the use of QTIv2 and provide an alternative to commercial systems. The project is working in close collaboration with other projects also funded by JISC (under the Technical developments to support learning and teaching Assessment strand) These deal with Item Banking AsDel (University of Southampton) and Assessment Delivery Minibix (University of Cambridge)
Southampton University	Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 questions (ASDEL)	This project aims to build an assessment delivery engine to the IMS Question and Test Interoperability version 2.1 specifications that can be deployed as a stand-alone web application or as part of a Service Oriented Architecture enabled Virtual Learning environment or portal framework. The engine will provide for: delivery of an assessment consisting of an assembly of QTI items scheduling of assessments against users and groups delivery of items using a web interface marking and feedback a Web service API for retrieving assessment results In the second phase, the project will integrate with the other projects in this call on item banking (Cambridge: Minibix) and item authoring (Kingston: AQuRate) to provide a demonstrator, and will contribute to its evaluation and the evaluation of the project and its integration with the other projects under the Assessment call.
University of Cambridge	MiniBix	The Minibix project is developing an open source item banking system for the management of assessment items using version 2 of the IMS QTI specification. Building on an existing prototype already in use at Cambridge, we'll develop the system to meet both high-stakes and low-stakes use cases drawing on expertise internally and from the SQA and E3AN.

Lead institution

Project name

Summary

Kingston University

AQuRate

The project will develop an open source, standards compliant and platform-independent tool to enable the authoring of question items conforming to the current IMS QTI 2 Specification. The core tool would be desktop-based system that enables the production of as wide a range of QTI 2.1 question types as is allowed in the project timescale. Question Items will be packaged as SCORM 2004 compliant IMS Content Packages. The Project aims to integrate the AQuRate Authoring Tool with the two other eAssessment components: namely Item Banking and Assessment Delivery. The aim is to create a full eAssessment lifecycle to promote the use of QTIv2 and provide an alternative to commercial systems.

The project is working in close collaboration with other projects also funded by JISC (under the Technical developments to support learning and teaching Assessment strand) These deal with Item Banking AsDel (University of Southampton) and Assessment Delivery Minibix (University of Cambridge)

Southampton University

Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 questions (ASDEL)

This project aims to build an assessment delivery engine to the IMS Question and Test Interoperability version 2.1 specifications that can be deployed as a stand-alone web application or as part of a Service Oriented Architecture enabled Virtual Learning environment or portal framework.

The engine will provide for:

delivery of an assessment consisting of an assembly of QTI items
scheduling of assessments against users and groups
delivery of items using a web interface
marking and feedback
a Web service API for retrieving assessment results

In the second phase, the project will integrate with the other projects in this call on item banking (Cambridge: Minibix) and item authoring (Kingston: AQuRate) to provide a demonstrator, and will contribute to its evaluation and the evaluation of the project and its integration with the other projects under the Assessment call.

University of Cambridge

MiniBix

The Minibix project is developing an open source item banking system for the management of assessment items using version 2 of the IMS QTI specification. Building on an existing prototype already in use at Cambridge, we'll develop the system to meet both high-stakes and low-stakes use cases drawing on expertise internally and from the SQA and E3AN.

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