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- The acceptance of a submission to the database rests on the faculty member uploading a minimum amount of metadata.
- These minimum metadata standards are meant to maximize the utility of the data while minimizing faculty workload in uploading data to the database.
- There will be two sets of minimum metadata: the absolute minimum metadata is required to upload to the database under 'private' conditions; the second minimum takes effect when a user wishes to make their data public.
- The database must separate private and public data.
- There must be a check on data/metadata when a faculty member chooses to 'publish' their data to the public database.
- Faculty member uploads assessments, student response data and metadata to the database.
- Faculty member decides to make these data for this particular assessment public.
- Before these data will be accepted into the public database, the database will check for compliance of minimum metadata.
- If found to be lacking, the faculty member will be prompted as to the deficiencies in the data and given an opportunity to add additional, appropriate metadata.
- Absolute Minimum Metadata:
- Institution name -- related to security issues, this information can be obscured (by whom? The user of the database?)
- Instructor name -- related to security issues, this information can be obscured (by whom? The user or the database?)
- Course number
- Section number
- Year
- Semester or term
- Assessment name
- Additional Minimum Metadata for the Public Portion of the Database:
- Course name
- Course contact hours
- Discipline
- Type of course
- Types of students
- Is this a teacher education class?
- Number of enrolled students
- Course categorization
- Was this assessment part of a published or otherwise copyrighted resource?
- Assign a specific concept to each assessment item
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