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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 pairResponse:
a response to anItem
questionAssessment
: a set ofItems
AssessmentPart:
A grouped set ofItems
for fancier assessment sequencingAssessmentOffering:
AnAssessment
available for takingAssessmentTaken:
AnAssessmentOffering
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
.