SBIR Phase I: Creating an Interoperable Accessible Student Assessment System

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段项目旨在提高教育测试的效率。该项目研究了修改通用设计的测试交付系统的可行性，以便它可以导入使用标记协议标记的测试项目-问题测试互操作性（QTI）和可访问性元标签（AMT），以无障碍的方式提供该内容。本研究将解决的关键问题是：1。现有的QTI先进制造技术规范在多大程度上解决了州试验计划所允许的试验调节问题？以及2）需要哪些额外的元标签来满足州考试适应范围？3.修改公司现有版本是否可行？该项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力将是一个基于计算机的测试交付系统，该系统采用QTI AMT规范，使测试内容可访问和可移植，这是教育测试技术的一个重大进步。这项研究和开发工作的成功完成也将提供一个具体的例子，说明制定无障碍标准和规范的价值，并将表明考虑超越印刷品障碍的无障碍需求的重要性（即，失明/视力受损、阅读困难等）并将告知商业学习材料开发商所采用的国家教学材料无障碍标准（NIMAS）的下一版本的开发。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project aims to increase the efficiency of educational testing. The project examines the feasibility of modifying a universally designed test delivery system so that it can import test items tagged using a tagging protocol - Question Test Interoperability (QTI) and Accessibility Meta-Tags (AMT), to deliver that content in an accessible manner. This key questions this research will address are: 1. To what extent do the existing QTI AMT specifications address the test accommodations allowed by state testing programs?; and 2) What additional meta-tags are required to meet the universe of state test accommodations? 3. Is it feasible to modify the existing version of the company?s key product so that it interprets and accurately present test items formatted using the QTI AMT standards.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project will be a computer-based test delivery system that employs the QTI AMT specifications to make test content accessible and portable is a major advance in the technology of educational testing. Successful completion of this research and development effort will also provide a concrete example of the value of creating accessibility standards and specifications, and will demonstrate the importance of considering access needs that extend beyond print-based disabilities (i.e., blind/visual impairment, dyslexia, etc.) and will inform the development of the next version of the National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) as employed by commercial learning material developers.