[QTI] QTI examples packages

[Graham Smith]

Hi All:

I imagine most people will know about my own collection of IMS QTI  
version 2 examples, but some may not.

These include examples of the XML, working examples, and in many cases  
notes on the implementation. I would be interested to know if Hagen  
has seen these, and if he has found them useful.

At present these are, courtesy of David McKain, tempoorarily housed at
http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/qtiv2/examples/V2examples.html.

We are hoping to get a more permanent home , courtesy of CETIS.

There is a rather less up-to-date version of the same collection at
http://qtitools.caret.cam.ac.uk/qtiv2/examples/V2examples.html

courtesy of CARET, tho it is unlikley that this set will be maintained  
or extended.

I should add, in respect of the ph.ed.ac.uk set, that some of the  
MathAssess examples are work-in-progress, and one or two of these may  
give inconsistent results.

I hope, subject to support, to be able to extend this collection in future.

Regards to all

Graham Smith


Quoting Niall Barr <n.barr at admin.gla.ac.uk>:

> Hi,
>
> I think Hagen has made an important point here, and the lack of examples
> is something that we need to tackle - I've been having a look at the
> examples that come with the current public draft and they don't really
> cover enough.. A lot of elements aren't covered by examples.
>
> So, I think we need a community driven effort to get a better set of
> examples. We don't need lots of examples from the same template, but
> lots of examples that are a bit different. They also need to be
> carefully checked.
>
> I'd be happy to coordinate this, and do some checks to make sure items
> and assessments are valid. Obviously any examples would have to be
> released under something like creative commons, so they could be
> distributed freely.
>
> Niall
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ims-qti-bounces at lists.ucles.org.uk
> [mailto:ims-qti-bounces at lists.ucles.org.uk] On Behalf Of Hagen Fuchs
> Sent: 24 October 2009 13:33
> To: ims-qti at lists.ucles.org.uk
> Subject: [QTI] QTI examples packages
>
> 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/
>
>
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