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Assessment Open Service Interface Definitions assessment version 3.0.0
The Assessment OSID provides the means to create, access, and take
assessments. An Assessment
may represent a quiz, survey, or other
evaluation that includes assessment Items
. The OSID defines methods
to describe the flow of control and the relationships among the objects.
Assessment Items
are extensible objects to capture various types of
questions, such as a multiple choice or an asset submission.
The Assessment service can br broken down into several distinct services:
- Assessment Taking
- Assessment and Item authoring
- Accessing and managing banks of assessments and items
Each of these service areas are covered by different session and object interfaces. The object interfaces describe both the structure of the assessment and follow an assessment management workflow of first defining assessment items and then authoring assessments based on those items. They are:
Item
: a question and answer pairResponse:
a response to anItem
questionAssessment
: a set ofItems
AssessmentSection:
A grouped set ofItems
AssessmentOffering:
AnAssessment
available for takingAssessmentTaken:
AnAssessmentOffering
that has been completed or in progress
Taking Assessments
The AssessmentSession
is used to take an assessment. It captures
various ways an assessment can be taken which may include time
constraints, the ability to suspend and resume, and the availability of
an answer.
Taking an Assessment
involves first navigating through
AssessmentSections
. An AssessmentSection
is an advanced
authoring construct used to both visually divide an Assessment
and
impose additional constraints. Basic assessments are assumed to always
have one AssessmentSection
even if not explicitly created.
Authoring
A basic authoring session is available in this package to map Items
to Assessments
. More sophisticated authoring using
AssessmentParts
and sequencing is available in the Assessment
Authoring OSID.
Bank Cataloging
Assessments,
AssessmentsOffered,
AssessmentsTaken,
and
Items
may be organized into federateable catalogs called Banks
.
Sub Packages
The Assessment OSID includes an Assessment Authoring OSID for more advanced authoring and sequencing options.