XSD Data File Information ========================= Author: Colin Smythe Date: 1st August, 2017 Version: 1.2 Status: Final Release Description: This model forms part of the IMS Common Cartridge v1.4 specification. This model is the profile of the IMS QTI v1.2.1 specification. The changes made to the original specification to create this profile are: Root (a) Only one Assessment or one ObjectBank can be exchanged i.e. not Sections or Items; (b) The qticomment attribute has been removed. Assessment (a) Only a single Section must be contained in the Assessment; (b) The metadata is mandatory (see the specification for the fields that must be defined) with a multiplicity of 1; (c) All of the other Assessment fields have been removed apart from the optional PresentationMaterial; (d) The title attribute has been made mandatory. Object Bank (a) Only Items can be containd in the object bank; (b) The Qticomment structure has been removed. Section (a) All of the internal structure has been removed except the containment of Items (at least one is required); (b) The language attribute has been removed. Item (a) The deprecated attributes have been removed from the ItemMetadata class; (b) All qticomment attributes have been removed from various classes; (c) The Item pre and post condition attributes have been removed from the Item class; (d) The itemproc_extension structure has been removed from the Item class; (e) The reference structure has been removed from the Item class; (f) The objectives attribute has been removed from the Item class; (g) The itemcontrol attribute has been removed from the Item class; (h) The item rubric attribute and its associated classes have been removed from the Item class; (i) The duration attribute has been removed from the Item class; (j) The itemmetadata attribute has been made mandatory in the Item class; (k) The label, language and maxattempts attributes have been removed from the Item class; (l) The interpretvar attribute has been removed frm the Outcomes class; (m) The response_xy, response_num, response_grp and response_extension attributes have been removed from the Presentation class; (n) All extension attributes have been removed from various classes; (o) The ItemType, LevelofDifficulty, RenderingType, ResponseMultiplicity, Status and TypeofSolution have been deleted; (p) The ItemFeedback Class has been restructured as only flow_mat is used; (q) A single decvar is required i.e. for the default variable SCORE. Item-Response (a) The Rrange and Rarea attributes have been removed from the ResponseLabel Class. Item-Render (a) The render_hotspot attributes and the RenderHotspot class have been removed; (b) The render_slider attributes and the RenderSlider class have been removed; (c) The render_extension attribute has been removed from the ResponseType class; (d) The response_na attribute has been removed; (e) The qticomment attribute has been removed from the ResponseLabel class; Item-General (a) The Interpretvar class has been removed; (b) The DurationBase class has been removed and all derived attributes from the Conditionvar and CompositionLogic classes; (c) The var_extension attribute has been removed from the Conditionvar class; (d) The qticomment attributes have been removed from the Hint and Solution classes; (e) Setvar is restricted to the Set action; (f) Variable types are restricted to 'Integer' and 'Decimal'; (g) The defaultval and cutvalue, attributes for decvar have been removed; (h) Outcomes is limtied to a single decvar which must have only the variable "SCORE" declared; (i) The classes varlt, varlte, vargt, vargte, varinside, varsubset and unanswered have been removed; (j) The classes 'and', 'or', 'not' and 'conditionvar' have been significantly simplied i.e. see clause above for detail (k) The feedbacktype attribute for displayfeedback has been made mandatory with no default. Selection and Ordering (a) The entire Selection and Ordering (Package) has been removed. Outcomes (a) The entire Outcomes Processing (Package) has been removed. Material (a) The Reference Class has been removed as this is not required; (b) All entityref attributes have been removed; (c) Extensions have been removed; (d) Only 'mattext', 'matref' and 'matbreak' are permitted as types of material. Common (a) The Rubric class has been removed Items and Sections and it is only permitted to contain a single instance of material; (b) The ContextControl class has been removed i.e. no Control switches required; (c) The QtiComment Class has been removed; (d) The MetadataRule Class has been removed; (e) the Parameterization Class has been removed; (f) The 'view' attribute has been removed; (g) The Vocabulary Class has been removed and its attribute in the QtiMetadata Class also removed. History: Version 1.0: This profile is taken from the UML description of the QTIv1.2.1 specification. Version 1.1: Material has been returned as an alternative to flow_mat in ItemFeedback, SolutionMaterial and HintMaterial. Also, Assessment Rubric has been permitted but it must only contain a single instance of material. Version 1.2: The 'or' element has been re-introduced; Version 1.2.1: Bug fix - the use of the 'or' element has been permitted within the 'conditionvar'. License: IPR and Distribution Notices This machine readable file is derived from IMS Global specification IMS [spec name] Version [x.x] found at http://www.imsglobal.org/[xxx] and the original IMS Global schema binding or code base http://www.imsglobal.org/[binding document]. Recipients of this document are requested to submit, with their comments, notification of any relevant patent claims or other intellectual property rights of which they may be aware that might be infringed by any implementation of the specification set forth in this document, and to provide supporting documentation. 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Tool Copyright: 2012-2017 (c) IMS Global Learning Consortium Inc. All Rights Reserved. This is the container for alternative content. This content is to be displayed if, for whatever reason, the primary content cannot be rendered. Alternative language implementations of the host 'material' element are also supported using this structure. QTI General This defines the set of clauses that can be used within the logic statements of 'and', 'or' and 'not'. These logic statements enable the construction of co- mplex conditional tests. Common Cartridge Profil- e The extension has been removed. All of the co- nditions operating on duration have been removed. The 'or', 'and' a- nd 'not' have been considerably simplified. QTI General An Assessment o- bject is the logical construction of the test. An Assessment must c- ontain at least one Section which in turn will contain Items and/or Sections. An Assessment must eventually be constructed from a set of Items i.e. questions that are to be offered in the test. An Assessment object contains all of the information to make the use of individual Items meaningful i.- e. apart from the Sections the object includes the relationships bet- ween the Sections, the group evaluation processing and the correspon- ding feedback. Common Cartridge Profile The Assessment must consist of only one Section. The only other permitted attributes are the mandatory identifier and title. Optional language, metadata, rubric and presentation_material is also supported. QTI General The conditional test that is to be applied to the user’s response. A wide range of separate and combinatorial tests can be applied. Common Cartridge Profile The extension has been removed. All of the conditions operating on duration have been remo- ved. The only permited conditions are 'varequal', 'varsubstring', '- and', 'other'. This is the container for all of the instructions for the presentati- on with flow blocking of the question during a test. This informati- on includes the actual material to be presented. The labels for the possible responses are also identified and these are used by the res- ponse processing element defined elsewhere in the Item. This is the blocking/paragraph equivalent to the 'response_label' structure. This structure shold always be used to encapsulate the 'response_label construct. This allows the materials to be displayed to the users to be grouped together using flows. The manner in which these flows are handled is dependent upon the display-engine. QTI General Contains the hi- nts(s) that are to be revealed to the participant. When these hints are revealed is outs- ide the scope of the specification. The information can be revealed in several manners. The default mode is to show the 'Complete' hint. Common Cartridge Profile The material is presented in the form of flow_mat only. The only form of feedback is 'Comple- te'. This is the information that is presented as a hint. An Item the smallest exchangeable object within QTI-XML. An Item is more than a ‘Question’ in that it contains the ‘Question’, the prese- ntation/rendering instructions, the response processing to be applied to the participant’s response(s), the feedback that may be presented (including hints and solutions) and the meta-data describing the Ite- m. The container for the feedback that is to be presented as a result of the user’s responses. The feedback can include hints and solutions and both of these can be revealed in a variety of different ways. Contains all of the QTI-specific metada-data to be applied to the Item. This meta-data can consist of either entries defined using an external vocabulary or the individually named entries. Usage of the contained attributes are deprec- ated apart from the 'qtimetadata' attribute. This is the container for any content that is to be displayed by the question-engine. The supported content types are text (emphasised or not), images, audio, video, application and applet. The content can be internally referenced to avoid the need for duplicate copies. Al- ternative information can be defined – this is used if the primary c- ontent cannot be displayed. Common Cartridge Pro- file Only the 'mattext', 'matref' and 'matbreak' types are permitted. QTI General This defines the set of clauses that can be used within the logic statements of 'and', 'or' and 'not'. These logic statements enable the construction of co- mplex conditional tests. Common Cartridge Profil- e The extension has been removed. All of the co- nditions operating on duration have been removed. The 'or', 'and' a- nd 'not' have been considerably simplified. QTI General An object bank is an unordered set of items and sections. It is recommended that th- ere is a metadata description for the object bank as a whole. The object bank should have a globally unique identifier. Common Cartridge Profile In the Common Cartridge the object-bank can only contain Items. Meta-data support is availa- ble but the profile has no mandated entries. QTI General This defines the set of clauses that can be used within the logic statements of 'and', 'or' and 'not'. These logic statements enable the construction of co- mplex conditional tests. Common Cartridge Profil- e The extension has been removed. All of the co- nditions operating on duration have been removed. The 'or', 'and' a- nd 'not' have been considerably simplified. Contains all of the variable declarations that are to be made available to the scoring algorithm. Each variable is d- eclared using the 'decvar' structure apart from the default variable called ‘SCORE’ that is an integer and has a default value of zero (0- ). Common Cartridge Profile A single variable is permitted. This is "SCORE". Contains all of the instructions for the presentation of the question during an evaluation. This information includes the actual material to be presented. The labels for the possible responses are also identified and these are used by the response processing element defined elsewhere in the Item. This is the information that is to be presented to set the context f- or the contained objects. This can be used to contain question-based material that is common to all of the child objects. This is used in Assessment and Section objects. This is the information that is used to describe the solution. QTI General The QTI-specific meta-data assigned to the parent object i.e. Assessment, Section, Item or Object-bank. This approach requires that the approriate external vocabulary is defined and referenced in label/field tuple. Common Cartridge Profile The Vocabulary structure has been removed. The structure responsible for containing each of the QTI-specific meta-data fields. The label should appear in the v- ocabulary. If no vocabulary is used then external validation cannot take place. The root structure can consist of either: * A single object bank; * An assessment; * A set of item(s); * A set of section(s); * A- ny combination of items and sections. As the root this is mandatory and can occur once. Common Cartridge Profile A Common Cartr- idge is allowed to contain only an objectbank or an assessement. Contains the instructions for the question-engine to render the ques- tion using a classical multiple choice format. The number of possib- le responses is determined by the 'response_label' structures contai- ned. Both flowed and non-flowed formats are supported Contains the instructions for the question-engine to render the ques- tion using a classical fill-in blank format. The number of possible responses is determined by the 'response_label' structures contained. Both flowed and non-flowed formats are supported. Contains the actual test to be applied to the user responses to determine their correctness or otherwise. Each 'respcondition' contains an actual test, the assignment of a value to the associate scoring variables and the identification of the feedback to be associated with the test. This contains the possible response choices that are presented to the user. This information includes the material to be shown to the user and the logical label that is associated with that response. The label is used in the response processing. Flow and non-flow approaches are supported. QTI General This contains t- he instructions for the presentation of questions whose response will be either a 'respon- se_lid' (logical identifier), 'response_xy' (xy-co-ordinate), 'respo- nse_str' (a string), 'response_num' (a number) and 'response_grp' ( a group of logical identifiers). The question can be rendered in a variety of ways depending on the way in which the material is to be presented to the participa- nt. Common Cartridge Profile Only the response_lid and response_str response types are supported with render_choice and render_fib rendering. QTI General This contains t- he instructions for the presentation of questions whose response will be either a 'respon- se_lid' (logical identifier), 'response_xy' (xy-co-ordinate), 'respo- nse_str' (a string), 'response_num' (a number) and 'response_grp' ( a group of logical identifiers). The question can be rendered in a variety of ways depending on the way in which the material is to be presented to the participa- nt. Common Cartridge Profile Only the response_lid and response_str response types are supported with render_choice and render_fib rendering. This contains all of the instructions for the response processing. This includes the scoring variables to contain the associated scores and the set of response condition tests that are to be applied to the received user response. This is used to contain contextual information i.e. rubric that is important to the object e.g. it could contain standard data values that might or might not be useful for answering the q- uestion. Common Cartridge Profile This is used in assessments to provide instructions. Only a single mattext is permitted in the material. QTI General A Section is the core grouping concept within QTI. A Section consists of one or more Items or Sections (o- r references to Items and Sections). In general, the objects contain- ed within a Secton will have some relationship either in terms of co- ntent or content delivery. The Section data structure is used to define arbitrarily comp- lex hierarchical section and item data structures. It may contain m- eta-data, objectives, rubric control switches, assessment-level proc- essing, feedback and selection and sequencing information for sections and items. Common Cartridge Profile In Common Cartridge the Section can only contain a list of Items. No metadata is permitted. The identifier is mandatory but the title and language a- re optional. QTI General Contains the so- lution(s) that are to be revealed to the participant. When these solutions are revealed is outside the scope of the specification. The information can be r- evealed in several manners. The default mode is to show the 'Complete' solution. Common Cartridge Profile The material is presented in the form of flow_mat only. The only form of feedback is 'Complete'. This is the information that is used to describe the solution. QTI General This is used f- or the declaration of the scoring variables. The name of the variable that is to be declared. The default name is ‘SCORE’. All numeric v- ariables have the associated ‘x.min’, ‘x.max’ and ‘x.normalised’ var- iables declared. Several of the optional attributes depend upon the t- ype of variable that is declared. Common Cartridge Profile Only the variable t- ypes of decimal and integer are permitted. Only a single "SCORE" vari- able is permitted. This is used for assigning an associated feedback to the aggregated scoring if the ‘True’ state results. Feedback for hints, solutions and response processing are supported. The feedback is identified using the pointer 'linkrefid'. This is used to contain a reference to the required full material bl- ock. This material will have had an identifier assigned to enable s- uch a reference to be reconciled when the instance is parsed into the system. This is used to contain a reference to the required full material bl- ock. This material will have had an identifier assigned to enable s- uch a reference to be reconciled when the instance is parsed into the system. This is the container of any text that is to be displayed to the use- rs. It is the base type for normal and emphasised text. QTI General This is respons- ible for changing the value of the scoring variable as a result of t- he associated response processing test. The default action is to 'Set' the 'SCORE' variable to the value given in the string. Common Cartridge Profile Only the actons Set, Add and Subtract are premitted. This is the test of equivalence. The data for the test is contained as a string. The accompanying attributes are the identifier for the associated 'response_label', the ordinal 'index' of the response and whether or not the value is case-sensitive when p- rocessing strings. This is the test for a contained substring. The data for comparison is presented as a string. The associated attrib- utes are the response label identifier, the ordinal index of the response and whether or not the value is case-sensit- ive when processing the strings.