1. Rod Johnson & Sandra Johnson Assessment Europe Generalise not specialise: design implications for a national assessment bank

2. Some history

3. Original AAP database

4. Re-conceptualisation

5. Assessment materials Variety of subjects and formats – suitable for pupils aged 7 to 14 Pencil & paper and practical Several years’ of materials resource to be recovered Existing AAP materials used to initially populate the 5-14 National Assessment bank

6. Example 1

7. Example 2

8. Example 2 continued

10. Example 3

11. A generalised ontology for storing assessment materials

12. Example 4: single-item task

13. Example 2 Section C: multi-item subtask

14. Example 3 revisited: multi- subitem single-item task

15. Example 5: a 2-item task

16. Key question What should properly be stored in the assessment bank?

17. Our answer Task images Resource materials Descriptive metadata but not Marking details Test construction algorithms Statistical metadata

18. Distributed information system architecture