RE: [dita-learningspec] Feature Request: Fill-in-the-Blank Question Type

["Wayne Gafford" <gaffordw@adlnet.org>]

greetings

 

if we add <lcFillin> as an additional interaction type, would that now make 4 interaction types using the same content model? (truefalse, singleselect, multipleselect and fillin).

 

if so...would suggest consolidating each type as attributes on one wrapper element.

 

wayne

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From: john_hunt@us.ibm.com [mailto:john_hunt@us.ibm.com]
Sent: Mon 1/21/2008 10:47 AM
To: Eliot Kimber
Cc: dita-learningspec@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: Re: [dita-learningspec] Feature Request: Fill-in-the-Blank Question Type

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

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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

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Senior Solutions Architect
"Bringing Strategy, Content, and Technology Together"
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