Question banks in the internet

[Marielle Lange]

Hi Alejandro!

Is it this kind of information you are after?
     http://revolution.lexicall.org/eLearning/links/assessment.html
     http://revolution.lexicall.org/eLearning/links/standards.html
     (many links, do not be put off if the first ones do not seem to  
match your request).

IMS is the way to go for the metadata encoding of question items. All  
VLE (Virtual learning environments, like blackboard and webct) or  
question presentation softwares have routines to import IMS encoded  
questions.
   Info at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/documents/ briefings/ 
briefing-36/briefing-36-A5.doc and http://www.imsglobal.org/

No experience on using question banks... In my University they have  
funded the creation of a learning object repository. However they  
made it for local access only (University staff) ... and it has  
little success.

I need to make you aware that the challenge is not to create a  
software to fetch question items from an internet server. The  
challenge is to come up with a sensible keyword taxonomy that would  
let your users rapidly find the question they need. The taxonomy used  
in libraries is the one of Dewey. Apparently, some people have  
recently tried to put it to use to try to classify internet material:
    http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~leei/weblog/000020.html

Note that I also had the project to create a question bank, stored on  
the web and viewed with Revolution (I have a file with 100 pages of  
QCM questions related to cognitive psychology, on my computer). If  
you want to discuss your initiative, feel free to send me an email on  
list or privately. If you want to "test" collaborative working,  
consider discussing your project on the revolution-education  
wiki :-))). [be reassured, my intention is to stop hammer on the  
existence of this wiki]. In fact, I added there today a description  
of the very similar project of "exercise editor" I have.


Marielle

On 05/05/2005, at 3:44 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> Hi Educators! :)
>
> Could you post links to Questions
> or Test banks available in the internet?
>
> i'm working in the creation of a Question
> bank available in the internet,
> using a RR/MC application.
>
> What is your experience in collaborative
> working for public access databases,
> like the wikipedia, or a Question bank?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> al
>

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Marielle Lange (PhD),  Psycholinguistics, Lecturer in Psychology and  
Informatics
University of Edinburgh, UK

Homepage:  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mlange/
Lexicall project: http://lexicall.org
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