Information structure of Open Assessment

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This is a manuscript about the information structure of Open Assessment.

Abstract

Background

• Open assessment

Methods

The work is based on research questions. The current answers to these questions should be seen as hypotheses that will be tested against observations and practical experience as the work goes on. The research questions are presented in the Results section together with the current answer.

The scientific methods that have been used as the foundation of this work are briefly presented here.

• PSSP
• Bayesian network, causality
• Bayes' theorem
• Falsification, bayesian updating
• Decision theory
• pyrkilo
• open assessment
• argumentation theory

Three requirements were applied throughout the method development:

• possibility to open participation at any point in the assessment work
• falsifiability (testable against observations)
• reusable objects

Results

• Universal products: attributes
• Assessment report main attributes
• Variable
• Assessment report subattributes
• Attribute: parts: actual content, narrative description, discussion (see Universal products)
• Discussion Dealing with disputes:
  • parts of discussion (hierarchy does NOT show temporal issues but targets of arguments)
  • (parts of argument?)
• Method (descrbied in Process)
• Model, Tool (what is the difference between the two?)
• Class (add this to the glossary)
• Abstraction level (not written down?)
• Performance, including uncertainty Evaluating assessment performance, Assessing uncertainty, Quality assurance and quality control, Purpose and properties of good assessments

Results

Attributes:

• Name
• Scope
• Definition
• Result