SPAID: Storage and Packaging of Assessment Item Data

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SPAID Storage and Packaging of Assessment Item
Data

• University of Strathclyde
• Sheila MacNeill, Niall Sclater, Rowin Young
• Scottish Qualifications Authority
• Dave Adams, Mhairi McAlpine, Ian MacFarlane,
  Colin McIntyre, Sean Preston, Ben Stokes

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What will SPAID do?

• Content packaging service for QTI v2.0 assessment
  items
• Customisable metadata tagger
• Usage data file generator
• Sample item bank
• Item bank web services
• Domain scoping and reporting

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Why ? (human factors)

• Stakeholders
• Learners
• Teachers
• Assessment bodies
• Publishers
• Developer community
• Formative, summative and diagnostic
• Security, exposure control
• Item quality usage data

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How? (technical stuff)

• What is being developed?
• Item bank infrastructure
• Relevant web services
• Which services?
• Content packaging, metadata tagging, usage data
  tagging, search and retrieval
• Standards?
• IMS Question and Test Interoperability v2.0
  (v2.1/v1.2)
• IMS Content Packaging v1.1.4
• IEEE LOM, UK LOM Core, IMS QTI v2.0 LOM
  application profile
• IMS Digital Repositories Interoperability v1.0
  etc.
• Technology?
• .NET and MSDE (or Java and MySQL??), OAI etc.
• Other?
• JAD workshop agile programming use case
  commissioning IBIS (Item Banks Infrastructure
  Study) Moodle webpages blog

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The SPAID assessment item bank?
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Metadata tagging
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Content packaging
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Challenges and Problem Areas

• Security and usability
• Range of use cases
• Conflicting use cases
• LOM application profile generation
• Unpackaging!
• Lack of existing item bank interoperability
• Community involvement

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Contacts

• Strathclyde
• Rowin Young, Project Manager
• rowin.young_at_strath.ac.uk
• Scottish Qualifications Authority
• Dave Adams, Project Manager
• dave.adams_at_sqa.org.uk
• Project website
• http//ford.ces.strath.ac.uk/SPAID