Hello all,
I'ld just like to remind you all that if you have any comments or strong 
opinions about our Assessment Item Bank papers (see original message 
below) it would be best to make them before the middle of this week, 
i.e. while they are still drafts. After that, of course, you'll still be 
welcome to discuss them, but it'll be too late to affect the final reports.

Best regards, Phil.


Hello All
Your comments and discussion on three papers about assessment item banks
are invited. See http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Assessment_Item_Banks.

Towards the end of 2006 the JISC CETIS  Metadata & Digital Repository
and Assessment SIGs, with support from the JISC Digital Repositories
Programme, held a joint meeting to discuss the overlap of Assessment
Item Banks (collections of question and test material) and Repositories.
The consensus of the meeting was that item banks can to a large extent
be conceived as specialized repositories for a particular type of
resource, and that established best practice in repository
interoperability could be beneficially applied to item banks.

Following the meeting, and also with JISC DRP support, we commissioned
two papers: one to describe technical aspects of item bank repositories,
the other to describe the requirements from the organizational / user's
point of view. We also wrote a short briefing paper on the topic. These
publications are now available as final drafts. They are:

     * What is assessment item banking A JISC CETIS briefing by Rowin
Young and Phil Barker, Repository and Assessment domain coordinators.
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/What_is_assessment_item_banking

     * Assessment item banks and repositories A JISC CETIS paper by
Sarah Currier, Product Manager, Intrallect Ltd.
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Assessment_item_banks_and_repositories

     * Assessment item banks: an academic perspective A JISC CETIS paper
by Dick Bacon, Senior Lecturer (HEA Consultant), University of Surrey.
http://wiki.cetis.ac.uk/Assessment_item_banks:_an_academic_perspective

We invite discussion and comments on these papers. Comments may be added
to the wiki by clicking on the "discussion" tab above each paper and
then clicking on the "edit" tab. If would prefer to discuss rather than
comment, you may post to either or both of the JISC CETIS Assessment and
Metadata and Digital Repository JISCMail lists. In about 2 weeks (i.e.
around 21st March) we will review the comments and discussion before
publishing final versions of these reports.

--Phil

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Phil Barker                            Learning Technology Adviser
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      Edinburgh, EH14 4AS
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