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Minibix: Item banking with web services
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posted on 2009-09-30, 13:48 authored by Steve Lay, William Billingsley, Raymond Chan, Dan SheppardThe Minibix system was developed from an existing prototype item bank
system in use for high-stakes testing at the University of Cambridge. The
system has been developed over the last year with support from the JISC e-
Learning Programme. This project has redeveloped the system based on
version 2 of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) specification and
is publishing the resulting system under an open source license.
In this paper, we propose a simple service model for describing the authoring,
banking, test construction and delivery of assessment content. The item
banking model is implemented by the Minibix system and will be
demonstrated in conjunction with authoring, test construction and delivery
systems developed by the sister projects: AQuRate (Kingston University) and
AsDel (University of Southampton).
These services, as part of a wider e-Framework, could enable tool integration
on a scale suitable for interacting with large-scale item banks. Private banks
are already used routinely in high-stakes summative assessment but open
repositories of items for formative use are now becoming available. For
example, the E3AN item bank for Electrical and Electronic Engineering or the
item bank for the Physical Sciences recently announced by the HEA.
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LAY, S. ... et al, 2008. Minibix: Item banking with web services. IN: Khandia, F. (ed.). 12th CAA International Computer Assisted Assessment Conference : Proceedings of the Conference on 8th and 9th July 2008 at Loughborough University. Loughborough : Loughborough University, pp. 169-184Publisher
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2008Notes
This is a conference paper.ISBN
0953957276Language
- en
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