The Assessment OSID provides the means to create,
access, and take assessments. An Assessment
may represent a quiz, survey, or other evaluation that
includes assessment Items. The OSID defines
methods to describe the flow of control and the
relationships among the objects. Assessment Items
are extensible objects to capture various types of
questions, such as a multiple choice or an asset
submission.
The Assessment service can br broken down into several
distinct services:
- Assessment Taking
- Assessment and Item authoring
- Accessing and managing banks of assessments and
items
Each of these service areas are covered by different
session and object interfaces. The object interfaces
describe both the structure of the assessment and follow
an assessment management workflow of first defining
assessment items and then authoring assessments based on
those items. They are:
-
Item : a question and answer pair
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Response: a response to an
Item question
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Assessment : a set of Items
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AssessmentSection: A grouped set
of Items
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AssessmentOffering: An
Assessment available for taking
-
AssessmentTaken: An
AssessmentOffering that has been completed or
in progress
Taking Assessments
The AssessmentSession is used to take
an assessment. It captures various ways an assessment can
be taken which may include time constraints, the ability
to suspend and resume, and the availability of an answer.
Taking an Assessment involves first
navigating through AssessmentSections. An
AssessmentSection is an advanced authoring
construct used to both visually divide an
Assessment and impose additional constraints.
Basic assessments are assumed to always have one
AssessmentSection even if not explicitly created.
Authoring
A basic authoring session is available in this package
to map Items to Assessments.
More sophisticated authoring using AssessmentParts
and sequencing is available in the Assessment
Authoring OSID.
Bank Cataloging
Assessments, AssessmentsOffered,
AssessmentsTaken, and Items
may be organized into federateable catalogs called
Banks .
Sub Packages
The Assessment OSID includes an Assessment Authoring
OSID for more advanced authoring and sequencing options.
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