I would totally concur, depending on what you are authoring and who uses the resource of course. We are based in medicine and are building a tool to house examination questions for us and other groups. For medicine in particular there is an absolute need to demonstrate a robust quality assurance exercise to authors (this ensures they are giving questions for a well thought out purpose as consultant time is costly), the public (public accountability is high particularly where we are using examination questions for finals examinations), students (they are more and more able to take legal action if they feel they have been given a fail grade unnecessarily) and public bodies, for us this is the General Medical Council - they regulate medical undergraduate courses and are particularly tough on assessments.
The way we are handling item quality assurance in terms of storage is as follows: everything is placed into the bank but some items have been quality assured whereas others have not as yet. we intend to retain a record of planned quality assurance events, which items are to be quality assured at the event, whether they were quaility assured, who by and with what outcome. The items are never made available for an examination without some amendment being made, it never happens.
Andrea Owen
Project Manager
www.umap.org.uk
www.ukcdr.manchester.ac.uk
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Sent: 13 February 2006 16:24
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Subject: Issues of quality control
Dear all,
I'm aware that I'm probably opening up a very large can of worms, but having spoken to academics within this institution, it has become apparent that potential depositors may be wary of depositing into a digital repository as they fear that a repository that includes pre-prints may not appear 'credible'.
Has anyone else dealt with this sort of concern, and how you responded to those that have voiced this concern? Do any repositories exclude items that have not gone through the peer-review process? If you accept items that have not gone through the peer-review process, do you apply any forms of quality control on the item?
I'd be very interested to know how others have tackled this issue, so any thoughts or insights would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Sarah
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