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Enhancing Formative Assessment in Mathematics & Statistics

Explore QTI tools for electronic assessment, pushing user-centric approach & authoring in educational settings. Drive usage beyond experts to improve learning outcomes in HE.

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Enhancing Formative Assessment in Mathematics & Statistics

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  1. Contextualising formative assessment in Mathematics and StatisticsNiall Barr University of GlasgowSue Milne University of GlasgowPaul Neve Kingston University

  2. The Story So Far… • Question and Test Interoperability (QTI): A standard for describing electronic assessment content as XML • A number of JISC and HEA-funded research projects have produced open source software for authoring QTI electronic assessment resources • Aqurate • QTITools • Aqurate, continued… • MathAssess • Mathqurate • FETLAR • Mathqurate, continued…

  3. The elephant in the room • The research projects producing the tools have involved many of the same old young faces at the same institutions • The user base for the tools thus far are therefore QTI experts and predominantly based in the maths subject area – this has influenced their use cases • The later authoring tools like Mathqurate reflect this • i.e. you stand little chance of being able to use it to its full capability unless you are a maths expert and know the QTI specification intimately • This was fine for projects designed to research and showcase QTI's capabilities including interoperability, but not for increasing usage of QTI in HE

  4. Uniqurate Main Goals • Put uninitiated users front and center • User experience and requirements drive • Interface design • Feature development • User requirements gathered in terms of "question components" • Result – hopefully – a useful tool for authoring QTI content accessible to users outside the past and present project circles

  5. Authoring and Contextualising http://uniqurate.kingston.ac.uk/demo

  6. Delivery… http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/qtiworks/

  7. QTIDI Main Goal Connecting thingymajig (LTI) Our fancy QTI 2.1 Assessment Tool Learning System

  8. Sample Questions • Error diagnosis for trainee primary teachers - errDiag00001-arith01.zip • Composite question with many inputs - multi-input.xml • Question with confidence indicator - choiceWithCertainty-polynomials.xml • Trig question - SineRule-002-mathOpWithSol.xml • using QTI maths functionality • full solution • permits alternative units • Inputting maths expressions - HA-Diff-002.xml

  9. QTI-IPS Support Site • Tools: editors, renderers, converters, VLE connection • Resources: • Examples – questions and tests for re-using • Documentation • Implementation resources • Help and support: • FAQs – currently being collected... • Mailing lists: • IMS QTI list at ims-qti@lists.ucles.org.uk • IMS forum at http://imsglobal.org via Engage>Public Forums>Question and Test Interoperability • Website http://qti-support.gla.ac.uk/

  10. Questions and contacts… Uniqurate • Project blog and further details http://uniqurate.kingston.ac.uk • Demonstration site http://uniqurate.kingston.ac.uk/demo • Lead developer: Paul Neve paul@kingston.ac.uk QTIDI • Project blog and further details http://qtisupport.blogspot.co.uk/ • Demonstration site – QTI Works http://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/qtiworks/ • LTI developer: Niall Barr niall.barr@glasgow.ac.uk • QTI Works developer: David McKain dmckain@ph.ed.ac.uk Consultant (Uniqurate and QTIDI) • Content: Sue Milne sue.milne@e-learning-services.org.uk

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