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Open Ed Jam 2014: Towards an Open Assessment Ecosystem
The document discusses the need for free formative assessment resources in the K-12 education system, highlighting the lack of such tools despite the presence of open educational resources. It outlines the current landscape of assessment tools, their costs, and the requirements for developing modern assessment item content with better interoperability. Opened.io aims to provide a free, web-based assessment tool with modern item types and accessible resources for teachers, while encouraging the creation of shareable assessment content.
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- 1. Towards an OpenAssessment Ecosystem Adam Blum adam@opened.io @openedio OpenEd Jam Conference 2014 San Antonio July 26, 2014
- 2. What’s Going OnIn Assessments • Open educational resources are thriving • OERs such as OpenEd, Gooru, WatchKnowLearn make quality K-12 videos and games available for free • But not formative assessments crucial for mastery-based learning implied by CCSS • Virtually no free formative assessment content • SBAC and states recognize this but have been slow to fill the gap • Most districts only have one item bank • Assessment item types have evolved via CCSS/Smarter Balanced/ PARCC
- 3. What Exists Today •standards for interoperable content – QTI, SCORM, SIF • some older free tools –Hot Potatoes, eXe • some expensive current tools –QuestionMark, Respondus – paid LMSes – expensive in costs AND complexity • expensive item banks –NWEA, McGraw Hill, HMH Riverside, Pearson – not available to individual teachers
- 4. QTI 2.1 ConformantAuthoring Tools •Onyx editor – 278 euros/seat, 3998 euros/institution • Mocah QTI editor – http://qti-work.lip6.fr/soumission/IMS-QTI-editeur/README.pdf –Single Response, Multiple Response, Free Response • Respondus? –Not listed. Doesn’t load QTI • Canvas – Failed to load QTI samples – No Technology Enhanced Items – Otherwise pretty good – but embedded only in larger LMS
- 5. SCORM Quiz Creators •Articulate Quizmaker – $699 • WonderShare QuizCreator – $129 •iSpring Quizmaker – $397 • eXeLearning – open source, no QTI But SCORM doesn’t really standardize item content
- 6. What Needs ToExist • free “modern” assessment items • free authoring tools • free grading/analytics • web-based (no client install) for easy access • available hosted • all open source • exchangeable, loadable content
- 7. Choose Resources Make/Take Courses Assess Analyze What OpenEd.ioDoes OpenEd Catalog Teach, Assess and Analyze with the Largest K-12 Resource Catalog Next Gen OER Flipped Class LMS Quizzing Tools Mastery Charts
- 8. OpenEd.io’s Content Mission •Largest K-12 educational repository – resources aligned to all standards – infuse all teaching with use of resources – free for teachers and users – paid for fees from paid content providers • But where are the assessment items? – If they are out there OpenEd would link to them – free or paid – But the free items aren’t out there – Even paid items aren’t easily accessible by individuals
- 9. OpenEd.io’s Assessment Tool •free and open source • web-based - hosted at www.opened.io • modern item types – Select Response, Multiple Response, Free Response • loads QTI content • offering multiple item banks from partners –With teacher approachable payment model • “resource-backed” –Resources to students based on the questions they miss Check out the Hangout demo: https://plus.google.com/events/cp6jdts1vfjcino3c3ivgqjqo 44
- 10. What Educators CanDo To Help •Create assessment item content – free or paid, but easily available – Creative Commons when possible – Exchangeable and loadable in LMSes (QTI – But hosted somewhere in some form • Fullfledged assessments for all standards – mix of DOK, Difficulty – “bitesized” appropriate for formative (5-10 items) •Guidelines for new items OPENED PROVIDES CREDIT FOR SUBSCRIPTION TO CONTRIBUTORS
- 11. What Developers CanProvide • new Technology Enhanced Item types –Not necessarily just the SBAC/PARCC ones –Richer Technology Enhanced Items for specific disciplines: math, physics. • better interop formats –QTI is not good XML design – SIF has virtually no adoption for assessments – only 2 participants on IMS program groups – assessment providers are engineering own formats – how about JSON-based? • hosted grading service – broker assessment response to graders, software assistance for grading OPENED WILL PROVIDE GRANTS FOR DEVELOPERS THAT WANT TO TACKLE ANY OF THESE OPEN SOURCE
- 12. Tell Us WhatYou’ve Done • adam@opened.io • @openedio • @adamblum
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- 14. Assessment Interop Requirements •assessment item content • assessment assets • item accommodations • item metadata –Standards alignment, perf statistics, usage/exposure data, relationship to other items • test forms (complete assessments) • scoring/rubric • reporting/results
- 15. Assessment Interop References •http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/statuschart.cfm • http://specification.sifinfo.org/Implementation/NA/3.1/ • http://images.pearsonassessments.com/images/tmrs/tmrs_rg/AssessmentIn teroperabilityStandards_FINAL_111710.pdf?WT.mc_id=TMRS_Next_Gener ation_Assessment_Interoperability_Standards