[QTI] Re: QTI 2.1 draft specification withdrawn

[John Norman]

Speaking as the person who pays the bills for IMS membership and who  
provided institutional contribution toward a JISC project specifically  
aimed at creating open-source implementations to aid QTI 2 adoption  
partially at the urging of IMS (our bit was called Minibix), and who  
provided resource to create the standard (Steve Lay's time while  
employed here), I have to say this calls into question the value of  
IMS standards and IMS membership. At an absolute minimum the decision  
should be advertised as a recommendation and what would need to happen  
for the specification to live on should have been expressed. I am  
already regretting paying for my ticket to Learning Impact 2009.

John Norman
CARET
University of Cambridge

On 30 Mar 2009, at 11:13, Sue Milne wrote:

> 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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