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TestWiki as been added as a request for enhancement to the Wikimedia bugtracker: [https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17129 #17129] |
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== TestWiki == |
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The TestWiki (working title) will allow to generate multiple-choice tests and other tests in a wiki and to annotate those tests publicly or privately using the wiki syntax. |
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Tags of the TestWiki syntax will be in their own sub-namespace "Test": |
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:<code><nowiki>{{Test::Tag}}</nowiki></code> |
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=== Question types === |
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Question types will include multiple-choice, grouping, table choice, ordering and comparison with expressions. |
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A complex question will be able to combine several questions types (e.g. making a comparison the right answer in a multiple-choice test or a multiple-choice test inside an ordering question, possibly with different choices depending on the order of items) |
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The software will be able to ask questions out of order and will keep track of successful answers to questions, |
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showing successfully answered questions less often. The software will also be able to mix questions from several modules. |
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Questions will allow to specify a pool of right and wrong answers from which only a small subset is shown in each test question. |
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The order of the questions will also be permuted randomly. |
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(Answering the test isn't learned based on the structure and layout of the test). |
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=== Categories === |
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TestWiki will allow to group tests into course modules with the module tag: |
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:<code><nowiki>{{Test::Module|<page>}}</nowiki></code> |
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The module tag marks content as part of a course module which is described on the wiki page <nowiki><page></nowiki>. |
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Additionally test authors and users will be able to add their own non-standard categories independently. |
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(Every user will have his own namespace of categories and will be able to ignore author categories.) |
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==== Module page ==== |
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A module information page can use the following tags: |
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: <code><nowiki>{{Test::Topic|<name>|<description>}}</nowiki></code> - the topic of a module |
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: <code><nowiki>{{Test::Publisher|<name>|url=<url>}}</nowiki></code> - the publisher of a module |
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: <code><nowiki>{{Test::License|<name>|url=<url>}}</nowiki></code> - the license for a module |
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: <code><nowiki>{{Test::URL}}</nowiki></code> - the home page of a module (e.g. a wiki that publishes the test) |
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: <code><nowiki>{{Test::Version|<major>|<minor>|<patchlevel>|<date>}}</nowiki></code> |
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: <code><nowiki>{{Test::Module|<page>}}</nowiki></code> - a containing module, unspecified information are inherited from this module. |
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=== Tags === |
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<nowiki>{{Test::}}</nowiki>-tags will be invisible or appear as customizable markup when a test page is displayed with the MediaWiki software. |
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: <nowiki>{{Test::Item|<name>}}</nowiki> is the beginning of a test item. |
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:: Parameters: |
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:: '''difficulty''' - the difficulty parameter assigns a numerical difficulty between 0 and 0x7fffffff (usually 0 to 10). |
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:: '''option''' - the option parameter can specify an identifier (a short word) that can be used to add or remove the question from a test scenario (as an option). |
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: <nowiki>{{Test::Q|<id>}}</nowiki> is the beginning of a question. A test can have several questions in order to phrase the same test item in different ways. Each question is followed by its own list of answers. |
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: <nowiki>{{Test::A|<id>}}</nowiki> is the beginning of an answer to the previous question. |
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=== Test format === |
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Tests will be formatted in XML in order to allow a well-defined and exchangeable database format for test databases. |
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Templates could optionally generate XML tags, so the generation of the test database would be a simple extraction of tags from a special output form of the wiki page. |
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=== Testing === |
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Users can add their own comments in wiki format but during a test comments are only shown after a question has been answered. |
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During a test conducted by a teacher the database of comments could be temporarily disabled or the pupils may be using a different computer. |
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=== Quiz extension === |
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The syntax could be combined with that of the [http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Help:Quiz-Simple Quiz extension]. |
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== See also == |
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* [[wikipedia:Multiple choice|Multiple choice]] |
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* http://edu.kde.org/parley/#features |
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