[QTI] Re: QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn

[Niall Barr]

It might be helpful if we could put together a list of all the
implementations of QTI 2.* that people are working on, or that are
already available. 
 
Looking at the download stats for QTItools
(http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=214103&ugn=qtitools&type
=&mode=60day
<http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/?group_id=111094&ugn=apis&type=&mo
de=60day> ) it seems that there is a lot of interest in QTI 2.1
 
Is it possible that all the interest is from academic (as opposed to
commercial) uses, and that with the level of clarity in the
specification and the existance of a good, liberally licenced opensource
implementation there is no reason for the people working on QTI 2.1 to
ever be very visible to IMS.
 
I can't really see the commercial vendors taking up QTI 2.* until the
education sector has taken it far enough to get it onto the list of
requirements for VLE updates.
 
Niall
 
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From: ims-qti-bounces at lists.ucles.org.uk
[mailto:ims-qti-bounces at lists.ucles.org.uk] On Behalf Of Sue Milne
Sent: 30 March 2009 11:14
To: ims-qti at lists.ucles.org.uk
Subject: [QTI] Re: QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn


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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