Assessment Authoring Open Service Interface Definitions assessment.authoring 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 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. They are:

• Item : a question and answer pair
• Response: a response to an Item question
• Assessment : a set of Items
• AssessmentPart: A grouped set of Items for fancier assessment sequencing
• AssessmentOffering: An Assessment available for taking
• AssessmentTaken: An AssessmentOffering that has been completed or in progress

The AssessmentSession is used to take an assessment and review the results. It captures various ways an assessment can be taken which may include time constraints, the ability to suspend and resume, availability of an answer key, or access to a score or other evaluation. Care should be taken to understand the various interoperability issues in using this interface.

An AssessmentSession may be created using an AssessmentOffered or AssessmentTaken Id. If instantiated with an AssessmentOffered Id, an AssessmentTaken is implicitly created and further references to its state should be performed using the AssessmentTaken Id.

An AssessmentSession is a mapping of an AssessmentOffered to an Agent at a point in time. The resulting AssessmentTaken is an identifier representing this relationship.

On the authoring side, Items map to Assessments. An Item may appear in more than one Assessment. Item banks may be used to catalog sets of Items and/or sets of Assessments.

Service Managers

Assessment Authoring Profile

class dlkit.services.assessment_authoring.AssessmentAuthoringProfile

Bases: dlkit.osid.managers.OsidProfile

The AssessmentAuthoringProfile describes the interoperability among assessment authoring services.

supports_assessment_part_lookup()

Tests if looking up assessment part is supported.

Returns:true if assessment part lookup is supported, false otherwise Return type:boolean

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

supports_assessment_part_query()

Tests if querying assessment part is supported.

Returns:true if assessment part query is supported, false otherwise Return type:boolean

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

supports_assessment_part_admin()

Tests if an assessment part administrative service is supported.

Returns:true if assessment part administration is supported, false otherwise Return type:boolean

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

supports_assessment_part_item()

Tests if an assessment part item service is supported for looking up assessment part and item mappings.

Returns:true if assessment part item service is supported, false otherwise Return type:boolean

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

supports_assessment_part_item_design()

Tests if an assessment part item design session is supported.

Returns:true if an assessment part item design service is supported, false otherwise Return type:boolean

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

supports_sequence_rule_lookup()

Tests if looking up sequence rule is supported.

Returns:true if sequence rule lookup is supported, false otherwise Return type:boolean

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

supports_sequence_rule_admin()

Tests if a sequence rule administrative service is supported.

Returns:true if sequence rule administration is supported, false otherwise Return type:boolean

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

assessment_part_record_types

Gets the supported AssessmentPart record types.

Returns:a list containing the supported AssessmentPart record types Return type:osid.type.TypeList

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

assessment_part_search_record_types

Gets the supported AssessmentPart search record types.

Returns:a list containing the supported AssessmentPart search record types Return type:osid.type.TypeList

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

sequence_rule_record_types

Gets the supported SequenceRule record types.

Returns:a list containing the supported SequenceRule record types Return type:osid.type.TypeList

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

sequence_rule_search_record_types

Gets the supported SequenceRule search record types.

Returns:a list containing the supported SequenceRule search record types Return type:osid.type.TypeList

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

sequence_rule_enabler_record_types

Gets the supported SequenceRuleEnabler record types.

Returns:a list containing the supported SequenceRuleEnabler record types Return type:osid.type.TypeList

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

sequence_rule_enabler_search_record_types

Gets the supported SequenceRuleEnabler search record types.

Returns:a list containing the supported SequenceRuleEnabler search record types Return type:osid.type.TypeList

compliance: mandatory – This method must be implemented.

Assessment Authoring Manager

class dlkit.services.assessment_authoring.AssessmentAuthoringManager(proxy=None)

Bases: dlkit.osid.managers.OsidManager, dlkit.osid.sessions.OsidSession, dlkit.services.assessment_authoring.AssessmentAuthoringProfile

The assessment authoring manager provides access to assessment authoring sessions and provides interoperability tests for various aspects of this service.

The sessions included in this manager are:

• AssessmentPartLookupSession: a session to retrieve assessment part
• AssessmentPartQuerySession: a session to query for assessment part
• AssessmentPartSearchSession: a session to search for assessment part
• AssessmentPartAdminSession: a session to create and delete assessment part
• AssessmentPartNotificationSession: a session to receive notifications pertaining to assessment part changes
• AssessmentPartBankSession: a session to look up assessment part bank mappings
• AssessmentPartBankAssignmentSession: a session to manage assessment part to bank mappings
• AssessmentPartSmartBankSession: a session to manage dynamic bank of assessment part
• AssessmentPartItemSession: a session to look up assessment part to item mappings
• AssessmentPartItemDesignSession: a session to map items to assessment parts
• SequenceRuleLookupSession: a session to retrieve sequence rule
• SequenceRuleQuerySession: a session to query for sequence rule
• SequenceRuleSearchSession: a session to search for sequence rule
• SequenceRuleAdminSession: a session to create and delete sequence rule
• SequenceRuleNotificationSession: a session to receive notifications pertaining to sequence rule changes
• SequenceRuleBankSession: a session to look up sequence rule bank mappings
• SequenceRuleBankAssignmentSession: a session to manage sequence rule to bank mappings
• SequenceRuleSmartBankSession: a session to manage dynamic bank of sequence rule
• SequenceRuleEnablerLookupSession: a session to retrieve sequence rule enablers
• SequenceRuleEnablerQuerySession: a session to query for sequence rule enablers
• SequenceRuleEnablerSearchSession: a session to search for sequence rule enablers
• SequenceRuleEnablerAdminSession: a session to create and delete sequence rule enablers
• SequenceRuleEnablerNotificationSession: a session to receive notifications pertaining to sequence rule enabler changes
• SequenceRuleEnablerBankSession: a session to look up sequence rule enabler bank mappings
• SequenceRuleEnablerBankAssignmentSession: a session to manage sequence rule enabler to bank mappings
• SequenceRuleEnablerSmartBankSession: a session to manage dynamic bank of sequence rule enablers
• SequenceRuleEnableRuleLookupSession: a session to look up sequence rule enabler mappings
• SequenceRuleEnablerRuleApplicationSession: a session to apply sequence rule enablers