[QTI] QTI examples packages

[Hagen Fuchs]

Dear IMS-QTI users,

I have been trying to find readily available QTI packages to download in
order to test different learning environments such as ATutor[0].  I had
hoped to find an entry pointing to freely available packages somewhere
in their FAQ or documentation; this came to nothing.

I consulted the impressive list that the JIS CETIS wiki[1] offers, but
apart from dozens of abbreviations with descriptions that try too hard
to sound all serious, only a few entries (5 out of ~50) seem to contain
*actual* questions.  The pity is, of these five, one seems to be just
another talky side[2] ("*will* establish"), another[3] is not accesible
to parties outside their university, the next[4] features dead-end
pdf-papers and, finally, two[5][6] rely heavily on Java and
presumably hide their questions in proprietary databases.  Surely, this
is not the point of defining a plain-text XML-standard like QTI?

This seems to be a less than satisfactory state of affairs.  I would
sincerely appreciate any guidance onto more fruitful soil.

On a related side-note:  How do I search the mailing-list archives
without having to browse it month-by-month in the mailman-archive[7]?

Thank you!

Best Regards,
  Hagen Fuchs


[0]: http://www.atutor.ca/
[1]: http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Assessment_tools%2C_projects_and_resources
[2]: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/reppres/sue/maths
[3]: https://secure.eps.surrey.ac.uk/psscqb/spad/psqbank.php
[4]: http://www.reading.ac.uk/AcaDepts/sp/PPLATO/imp/pplato.htm
[5]: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~mastmmg/Downloads/entry.htm
[6]: http://www.metalproject.co.uk/METAL/Resources/Question_bank/index.html
[7]: http://lists.ucles.org.uk/public/ims-qti/