[QTI] 'ListInteraction' as an extension to QTI

[Steve Lay]

Michael,

Sorry this reply is a bit slow.

The QTI specification is developed and maintained by the IMS Global 
Learning Consortium (IMS GLC).  The correct way to submit a request for 
future inclusion, or to report a problem, is to use the "Specification 
Problem and Suggestion Reporting" option on the IMS website.  It is 
under the "SPECIFICATIONS" menu or you can go straight there:

http://www.imsglobal.org/problemtracking/index.cfm

You will need to set up an ID on the system to make the suggestion but 
there is no cost involved and it only takes a few moment so please don't 
be put off by the initial redirect!

It is also a great idea to discuss possible extensions, such as new 
interaction types, with a list like this though.  Even if ideas are not 
incorporated into the specification quickly (these processes tend to be 
slow for good reasons) there is nothing stopping you publishing 
information about your extension and trying to gain support amongst 
other developers.  In fact, exactly what you are doing!

I suggest you post some examples of the proposed mark up in action, and 
perhaps point people to screen shots of what the interaction looks like 
in practice.

Steve

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Michael Pfähler wrote:
> 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 
> <http://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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