QTI: where are weand where are we going?

Pierre Gorissen - SURFfoundation

Steve Lay - Questionmark

QTI timeline- Conceived in 1999, v1.0 released in 2000- Updated in 2001 (v1.1) and 2002 (v1.2) to improve

and extend the model- By 2003 it was clear that a major revision was

necessary, a quick fix (1.2.1) was followed by a complete rewrite

- QTI v2.0 was published February 2005- QTI v2.1 (PD2) published June 2006- QTI v2.1 (PD2) – addendum published March 2008- QTI v2.1 (Final) expected ??

QTI 2.1 Status- Collected comments on Public Draft

- Released errata document- Profiling discussion

- Still ongoing, some work done on CC K12 profile- Interoperability demonstration

- Has not taken place yet- Because of that – no date set for final release

Project team- Meeting monthly basis until December 2008- As of January 2009

- Co-chair Steve Lay stepped down- Co-chair Pierre Gorissen stepped down

- IMS are looking for a new chair, issues should be raised directly with:- Kevin Riley, IMS- Lisa Mattson, IMS Operations

Changes in most recent update- Esoteric backwards-compatible changes:

- Outcomes can also be substituted in Maths and Objects (not just template variables); minor schema change

- Minor changes to rules of substitution in MathML to support operator and variable name parameterization; no schema change

- Deprecation of special duration-based operators; no schema change

- Recommendation to allow extensions at ‘rule’ level within processing elements; more permissive schema extensions

- Other wording changes to provide clarity with no intended changes to meaning or schema

- These are only recommendations from this community – they are not agreed changes!

Questions…

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