[QTI] Recording

[Steve Lay]

At 23:07 -0700 2006-10-02, Engin Koc wrote:
>Does anyone know how we define the metadata of questions that involve
>recording (such as speech-recording) that will be evaluated by an
>instructor later. Also is it possible to seperate the time taken by a user
>to read a passage, to read questions, to answer them as metadata both in
>results reporting and as questions' own metadata.

I don't think the information you are after is metadata, it should be part
of the question content.

There are ways that you could achieve the use cases you refer to, though it
is always difficult to determine if users really have done what they say
they have (such as reading a passage of text).

Sounds like you need a time-dependent adaptive item which displays the
passage and requires confirmation (though an endAttemptInteraction) before
displaying the question and likewise before providing them with the
interaction that obtains the answer itself.  At each point, you can capture
and test the value of the duration (recording them in separate outcomes if
desired) during response processing.

However, the big issue is that we don't have an interaction type which
describes a recorded response in the specification so if the response was
verbal (or involved making some other type of recorded sound) then you
would need to create a customInteraction to represent this.

Hope that helps.

Steve