Package org.osid.assessment.authoring

package org.osid.assessment.authoring

The Open Service Interface Definitions for the org.osid.assessment.authoring service.

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 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. They are:

• Item : a question and answer pair
• Response : a response to an Item question
• Assessment : a set of Items
• AssessmentPart : A grouped set of Items for fancier assessment sequencing
• AssessmentOffering : An Assessment available for taking
• AssessmentTaken : An AssessmentOffering that has been completed or in progress

The AssessmentSession is used to take an assessment and review the results. It captures various ways an assessment can be taken which may include time constraints, the ability to suspend and resume, availability of an answer key, or access to a score or other evaluation. Care should be taken to understand the various interoperability issues in using this interface.

An AssessmentSession may be created using an AssessmentOffered or AssessmentTaken Id . If instantiated with an AssessmentOffered Id , an AssessmentTaken is implicitly created and further references to its state should be performed using the AssessmentTaken Id .

An AssessmentSession is a mapping of an AssessmentOffered to an Agent at a point in time. The resulting AssessmentTaken is an identifier representing this relationship.

On the authoring side, Items map to Assessments . An Item may appear in more than one Assessment . Item banks may be used to catalog sets of Items and/or sets of Assessments .

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Related Packages

Package	Description
org.osid.assessment	The Open Service Interface Definitions for the org.osid.assessment service.
org.osid.assessment.authoring.records
org.osid.assessment.batch	The Open Service Interface Definitions for the org.osid.assessment.batch service.
org.osid.assessment.records

Interfaces

Class	Description
AssessmentAuthoringManager	The assessment authoring manager provides access to assessment authoring sessions and provides interoperability tests for various aspects of this service.
AssessmentAuthoringProfile	The AssessmentAuthoringProfile describes the interoperability among assessment authoring services.
AssessmentAuthoringProxyManager	The assessment authoring manager provides access to assessment authoring sessions and provides interoperability tests for various aspects of this service.
AssessmentPart	An AssessmentPart represents a section of an assessment.
AssessmentPartAdminSession	This session creates, updates, and deletes AssessmentParts .
AssessmentPartBankAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign AssessmentPart to Bank mappings.
AssessmentPartBankSession	This session provides methods to retrieve AssessmentPart to Bank mappings.
AssessmentPartForm	This is the form for creating and updating AssessmentParts .
AssessmentPartItemDesignSession	This session provides the means for adding items to an assessment part.
AssessmentPartItemSession	This session defines methods for looking up Item to AssessmentPart mappings.
AssessmentPartList	Like all OsidLists , AssessmentPartList provides a means for accessing AssessmentPart elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
AssessmentPartLookupSession	This session defines methods for retrieving assessment parts.
AssessmentPartNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to AssessmentPart objects in this Bank .
AssessmentPartQuery	This is the query for searching assessment parts.
AssessmentPartQueryInspector	This is the query inspector for examining assessment part queries.
AssessmentPartQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among AssessmentPart objects.
AssessmentPartReceiver	The assessment part receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted assessment parts.
AssessmentPartSearch	The search interface for governing assessment part searches.
AssessmentPartSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
AssessmentPartSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
AssessmentPartSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among AssessmentPart objects.
AssessmentPartSmartBankSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic bank.
SequenceRule	A SequenceRule defines the ordering of AssessmentParts .
SequenceRuleAdminSession	This session creates and removes sequence rules.
SequenceRuleBankAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign SequenceRule to Bank mappings.
SequenceRuleBankSession	This session provides methods to retrieve SequenceRule to Bank mappings.
SequenceRuleEnabler	A SequenceRuleEnabler describes the rules for making a SequenceRule effective.
SequenceRuleEnablerAdminSession	This session creates and removes sequence rule enablers.
SequenceRuleEnablerBankAssignmentSession	This session provides methods to re-assign SequenceRuleEnabler to Bank mappings.
SequenceRuleEnablerBankSession	This session provides methods to retrieve SequenceRuleEnabler to Bank mappings.
SequenceRuleEnablerForm	This is the form for creating and updating SequenceRuleEnablers .
SequenceRuleEnablerList	Like all OsidLists , SequenceRuleEnablerList provides a means for accessing SequenceRuleEnabler elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
SequenceRuleEnablerLookupSession	This session provides methods for retrieving SequenceRuleEnablers .
SequenceRuleEnablerNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to SequenceRuleEnabler objects in this Bank .
SequenceRuleEnablerQuery	This is the query for searching sequence rule enablers.
SequenceRuleEnablerQueryInspector	This is the query inspector for examining sequence rule enabler queries.
SequenceRuleEnablerQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among SequenceRuleEnabler objects.
SequenceRuleEnablerReceiver	The sequence rule enabler receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted sequence rule enablers.
SequenceRuleEnablerRuleApplicationSession	This session provides methods to apply SequenceRuleEnablers to SequenceRules .
SequenceRuleEnablerRuleLookupSession	This session provides methods to retrieve SequenceRuleEnabler to SequenceRule mappings.
SequenceRuleEnablerSearch	The search interface for governing sequence rule enabler searches.
SequenceRuleEnablerSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
SequenceRuleEnablerSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
SequenceRuleEnablerSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among SequenceRuleEnabler objects.
SequenceRuleEnablerSmartBankSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic bank.
SequenceRuleForm	This is the form for creating and updating sequence rules.
SequenceRuleList	Like all OsidLists , SequenceRuleList provides a means for accessing SequenceRule elements sequentially either one at a time or many at a time.
SequenceRuleLookupSession	This session provides methods for retrieving SequenceRules .
SequenceRuleNotificationSession	This session defines methods to receive notifications on adds/changes to SequenceRule objects in this Bank .
SequenceRuleQuery	This is the query for searching sequence rules.
SequenceRuleQueryInspector	This is the query inspector for examining sequence rule queries.
SequenceRuleQuerySession	This session provides methods for searching among SequenceRule objects.
SequenceRuleReceiver	The sequence rule receiver is the consumer supplied interface for receiving notifications pertaining to new, updated or deleted sequence rules.
SequenceRuleSearch	The search interface for governing sequence rule searches.
SequenceRuleSearchOrder	An interface for specifying the ordering of search results.
SequenceRuleSearchResults	This interface provides a means to capture results of a search.
SequenceRuleSearchSession	This session provides methods for searching among SequenceRule objects.
SequenceRuleSmartBankSession	This session manages queries and sequencing to create "smart" dynamic bank.