Integrating Assessment into E-learning Courses

10.5 Conclusion

This chapter describes how the LD specification and the QTI specification can be integrated. The first enables developers to formalize learning and the second enables the formalization of testing. Together they might formalize new forms of learning, integrating assessment in the learning design.

The chapter starts with the developments around assessments, indicating that more attention is now being focused on formative assessments. It is not only products which are assessed, but processes, too, which become more important in such new assessment forms like performance assessment or portfolio assessment.

QTI was not originally designed to facilitate these kinds of assessments. However, this chapter outlines four scenarios in which the possibilities of an integration of QTI and LD are explored.