[QTI] Re: QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn

Felipe Gaúcho fgaucho at gmail.com
Mon Mar 30 11:26:42 BST 2009


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2009/3/30 Sue Milne <milne.sm at googlemail.com>:
> Hi List,
>
> The withdrawal of the QTI v2.1 draft specification is a cause of great
> concern to those of us engaged in implementing the specification and to the
> many advocates of standards in e-assessment.  QTI v2.1 presents a structure
> which comes close to fulfilling the requirements of the Mathematics and
> Science community, for whom the "fully endorsed" QTI v1.2.1 is seriously
> inadequate.
>
> I find the lack of communication between IMS and the teams that they know
> are implementing the specification frankly astonishing; action as
> fundamental as this should have been preceded by well-publicised warnings
> about their intentions rather than being presented as a fait accompli.
>
> Given that there is active development in progress on implementation, it
> seems contrary of IMS to move the V2 specifications back into the draft
> phase, and I hope they will reconsider their action and reinstate QTI v2.1.
>
> Best regards
> Sue
>
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