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Subject: Re: [dita-learningspec] Feature Request: Fill-in-the-Blank Question Type
- From: john_hunt@us.ibm.com
- To: Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>
- Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:47:09 -0500
Hi Elliot -
Thanks for this suggestion.
We based the 6 interactions on IMS QTI
Lite and group experience. We considered including a fill-in item, but
did not, in good part because it is not included in the QTI lite set. For
info on QTI and QTI Lite, see http://www.imsglobal.org/question/.
However, the full QTI does include a
fill-in type question, which they call text entry. See the example - http://www.imsglobal.org/question/qti_v2p0/examples/items/text_Entry.xml.
First, we need to distinguish a text
fill-in from a multiple select with a blank spot in a statement and a set
of choices.
In that case, we might have a single-select
item about the first President of the United States like this:
<lcSingleSelect>
<title>Multiple choice</title>
<lcQuestion>_____ was the
first President of the United States.</lcQuestion>
<lcQuestionOptions>
<lcQuestionOption>
<lcOptionContent>Adams</lcOptionContent>
<lcFeedback>Close,
but try again.</lcFeedback>
</lcQuestionOption>
<lcQuestionOption>
<lcOptionContent>Washington</lcOptionContent>
<lcCorrectResponse/>
</lcQuestionOption>
<lcQuestionOption>
<lcOptionContent>Bush</lcOptionContent>
<lcFeedback>Not
even close!</lcFeedback>
</lcQuestionOption>
</lcQuestionOptions>
</lcSingleSelect>
Second, for a fill-in, how about this
extremely simple alternative?
<lcFillin>
<title>U.S. Presidents</title>
<lcQuestion>
<lcCorrectResponse>Washington<lcCorrectResponse>
was the first President of the United States.
</lcQuestion>
<lcFillin>
It has these virtues:
- seems to provide all of the necessary
information - where to insert the blank spot on rendering, and the correct
text to match.
- only introduces one new element to
the interactions domain - lcFillin.
Issues:
- QTI provides additional details for
the text entry responses - max length, alternative correct answers. To
accomodate alternative answers, we could allow for multiple <lcCorrectResponse>
elements, though we would need to specify if they were for multiple fill-in
responses, or alternatives for a single fill-in.
What do you think?
John
___________________________________
John Hunt
DITA Architect / Lotus Information Development Center
Chair, OASIS DITA learning and training content sub-committee
IBM Software Group/Lotus Software
john_hunt@us.ibm.com
From:
| Eliot Kimber <ekimber@reallysi.com>
|
To:
| dita-learningspec@lists.oasis-open.org
|
Date:
| 01/17/2008 10:43 AM
|
Subject:
| [dita-learningspec] 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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