[education-wg] GIFT assessment format (was Re: endorse S. 1714 and ask for help...)

[James Salsman]

I put a quick summary of the GIFT format at
http://microformats.org/wiki/gift-syntax

Still to be done to extend the format for learner adaptivity are the
optional prerequisite and relative difficulty links to other questions
(titles can be used) and the optional question help text at two levels
of specificity.


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:50 PM, James Salsman <jsalsman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I missed this the last time I looked at Moodle.  This GIFT format
> (spec is GPLed, no restrictions on implementation) from Moodle is
> pretty close to ideal for our purposes, except it needs to be
> extended:
>
> http://docs.moodle.org/en/GIFT_format
>
> In order to work with the del Soldato/du Boulay "Motivational
> Tactics," each question would also need to be able to have specified:
>
> A. relations to other questions
>    1.  set of questions which help answer this question
>    2.  set of questions which answering this question helps answer
> (Can some of the directed graph of which questions assist in the
> answering of other questions be derived from categorization or must it
> be stored completely explicitly?)
>
> B.  set of relations to other questions by relative difficulty; for each:
>    1.  another question
>    2.  more or less difficult, and how much
>
> C. (all these are optional)
>    1.  general help
>    2.  specific help
>    3.  hints explaining why wrong answers are wrong ('surprise result')
>
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Greg DeKoenigsberg
> <greg.dekoenigsberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Should I just drive people to here:
>>
>> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal_talk:Assessment_content
>
> I will certainly try to keep that up to date.  Here are some RSS feeds:
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal:Assessment_content&feed=rss&action=history
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Proposal_talk:Assessment_content&feed=rss&action=history
>
> Cheers,
> James
>