On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 14:31, Greg DeKoenigsberg<g...@redhat.com> wrote: > > Hello folks. > > Is there any interest in figuring out how assessments might work in a > Sugar activity API? > > Teachers frequently talk about the need to assess the progress of their > pupils. In the context of an activity, how do teachers do that? I don't > think there's a clear mechanism, and I suspect that constructing such a > mechanism might be simple. I believe that such a feature might also help > make a case for usefulness to teachers. > > A few points/assumptions: > > 0. I'm guessing there will be some simple API, maybe > "sugar.activity.assess". Or maybe it's actually part of datastore. I > don't know the code well enough. :) > > 1. I assume there will be a server that can collect this data, maybe > Moodle, maybe not. Something like... > * Activity is suspended. > * Assessment data is written to datastore. > * Some process reaps recent assessment data periodically and syncs to > server if possible, or fails gracefully if not, storing for future sync. > > 2. I believe that every activity should be able to report the most basic > assessment metric, which is "time spent in an activity". For young > students, time spent in an activity is one of the most reliable predictors > of mastery, and because that data can surely be collected automatically, > it should be made available automatically. > > 3. I believe that it should be possible for an activity to specify > additional, simple assessment. This could be quite a rathole, but an > initial possibility could be "score/max score" and timestamp. > > So one can imagine an activity passing along data that might look > something like this: > > gregdek, mongo, rectangle-quest-1, 18/20, timestamp 08:31:44. > gregdek, mongo, rectangle-quest-2, 11/20, timestamp 08:52:08. > gregdek, mongo, time-in-activity, 23 minutes, timestamp 09:04:56. > > Is this an interesting idea? If so, I'd love to sit down with folks at > the hackfest at LinuxTag and draw up a spec for how it might be > implemented.
I think it's very interesting and have heard from several people similar interest: GCompris, OLPC Austria, IFL (TeacherMate), etc Will be great to talk about it in LT, maybe we could hold a session in the sugar booth? Or better sunday as a FUDCon session? Regards, Tomeu _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
