• LearningContent
• LearningAssessmentTopicType

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• This is a working page of a design in progress.

Learning Assessment Topic Type

The Learning Assessment Topic Type presents instruments that measure progress, encourage retrieval, and stimulate reinforcement of the learning content, and can be presented before the content as a pre-assessment or as a post-assessment test. The interactions use a sub-set of the Question-Test Interoperability (QTI) specification, implemented as a DITA domain specialization. For more on QTI, see Phase 5.

See feedback on Assessment topic from ADL Summit meetings.

Outline of elements needed to support a Learning Assessment

Working design for Learning Overview, updated 9May07 to match working DTD design.

learningAssessment

• title (required)
• titlealts (optional)
• shortdesc (optional)
• prolog (optional)
• learningAssessmentBody (required)
  • lcIntro (optional)
  • lcDuration (optional)
  • lcInteraction (optional, one or more)
  • lcSummary (optional)
• related-links (optional)
• [no-topic-nesting]

What these things mean

• title

  • Contains a title for the set of assessment questions. For example, if the assessment is for certification, it might be titled Certification Test.

• titlealts

  • Contains an alternate title. For example, the required title may be used in a navigation pull down menu and display better in a shortened or abbreviated form.

• shordesc

  • Contains a short description of the purpose of the assessment.

• prolog

  • Contains basic metadata about the assessment, including audience, platform, prodinfo, othermeta, etc. TBD if we need to add more learning-specific metadata to the prolog.

• learningAssessmentBody

  • A wrapper element for the assessement proper.

• lcIntro

  • Introductory statement about the assessment which might include things like its purpose or origin or context. Can also include instructor notes.

• lcDuration

  • General free form statements about how long the assessment should take or how much time is strictly allowed.

• lcInteraction

  • A wrapper element for all the interactions (questions, solicitations, etc.) of the assessment. The interactions themselves will be based on a basic set of assessment types implemented as a native DITA domain specialization.

• lcSummary

  • Provides a general summary statement about the assessment which might include pass/fail/certification criteria.

• related-links

  • Contains one or more links to related information. For example, these might be links to the content being tested by the assessment interactions.

More details

See Learning Assessment background details