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Subject: Feature Request: Fill-in-the-Blank Question Type
I have several clients that produce various types of learning content, including textbooks and test prep documents. For the latter I developed a proof-of-concept schema about 6 months ago that includes markup for the test questions used in their test prep publications. There's a pretty clean match between my original design (which was itself informed by work I did many many years ago for Educational Testing Service when we designed an SGML doctype for SAT test questions as well as work I did for International Correspondence Schools for using SGML for their correspondence and online training products). Anyway, I found one big mismatch: fill-in-the-blank questions. My test prep clients have only three types of assessment questions: - Multiple choice - True/false - Open-ended ("essay questions") - Fill-in-the-blank However, I see that the current draft of the learning specialization does not include fill-in-the-blank. I would like to request that we add that. For this particular client I think a DITA-based solution would otherwise make perfect sense but the lack of a fill-in-the-blank specialization would be a barrier. The design I came up with for this client looks like this: <question> <q_statement> <p>In the number 706,423, <write_in_blank id="q1-b1"/>the digit 0 is in which place?</p> </q_statement> <q_answer> <fill_in_blank> <q_solution> <values> <blank_value blank_id="q1-b1">answer 1</blank_value> </values> </q_solution> </fill_in_blank> </q_answer> </question> I'm happy to take a stab at coming up with something that would be consistent with the design of the other question types if there is not already a proposal for this type of question in the works. Thanks, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together" Main: 610.631.6770 www.reallysi.com www.rsuitecms.com
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