[QTI] 'ListInteraction' as an extension to QTI

[Michael Pfähler]

Hello everybody,

I'm working as a developer for an item banking system for medical items that
is being developed by three German universities ( www.ims-m.org ). We are
trying to use QTI 2.1 as an interface to other systems, e.g. to assessment
systems.

Our item banking system manages a set of different question types. One of
them is called a 'long menu question'. The candidate chooses the correct
answers to a long menu question from a large list of answers (>500), so that
such a question is both easily evaluable and at the same time avoids easy
recognition of the correct answer.

Syntactically such a long menu question could simply be expressed as a
choiceInteraction. However, there are semantic differences (definition of
synonyms, sharing a list across items). We currently use a customInteraction
to export long menu questions. However, we think that the QTI standard could
benefit from the integration of a dedicated 'listInteraction'.

We already detailed a data format for this 'listInteraction' that I would
like to share with you.

I would greatly appreciate if you could point me to the appropriate entity
that is responsible for such suggestions and at the same time, I would like
to hear your opinions on the potential inclusion of this new question type
into the current or a future QTI specification.

Thank you very much,
Regards,

Michael
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