No. | Meeting Date | Use Case Description | Decision Made? | dBase as Test Bank | User training/ documentation | Content metadata | Course Metadata | Query related | System Requirement | Must/Should/Nice to have |
1 | June 19, 2007 KBS | I would like to consolidate and archive my data and metadata. | n/a | | | x | x | | | Must |
2 | April 13, 2007 September 18, 2007 June 19, 2007 | Tagging assessment items: with Blooms data, concept categories, learning objective, some other taxonomy | yes - will support | | | x | | | | Must |
3 | 3-Jul-07 | Assessment items will be tagged according to an ontology | yes | x | | x | | x | | Must |
4 | 27-Nov-07 | Database will use the NBII Biocomplexity thesaurus as the Biology ontology. | yes | x | | x | | | | Must |
5 | 27-Nov-07 | Ontology for a discipline must not be rigid - additions must be possible. | yes? | x | | x | | | x | Must |
6 | February 4, 2008 MU-L | Must be able to use different content metadata by discipline. While we can use the NBII thesaurus for biology, we need to have an API that can be used to define other metadata for other disciplines. | yes - will support | | | x | | | x | Must |
7 | February 4, 2007 MU-L JLM | This assessment (or assessment item) has multiple rubrics) | yes - will support | x | | x | | | | Must |
8 | February 4, 2008 MU-L JLM | This assessment has been scored in multiple ways (see above). | yes - will support | | | x | | | | Must |
9 | February 4, 2008 MU-L JLM | This assessment has multiple and different raters on two (or more) different rubrics | yes - will support | | | x | | | | Must |
10 | 13-Apr-07 | I would like to see the raw response data for an assessment item(s) I would like to see the points assigned to a particular response | yes - will support | | | x | | | | Must |
11 | May 18, 2007 June 19, 2007 | I would like to find assessment items that address a particular misconception | n/a | x | | x | | | | Must |
12 | May 18, 2007 October 9, 2007 | I would like to upload my non-MC exams and student responses. Student responses are a scanned image -or- electronic. | yes - will support | | | | | | | Must |
13 | 7-Feb-08 | Faculty who upload data must agree that any identifying information in student responses has been removed | yes - will support -- how? | | | | | | x | Must |
14 | July 3, 2007 November 6, 2007 | I have additional data/metadata I would like to upload. -or- I made a mistake. Where can I do that? | n/a | x | x | x | x | | | Must |
15 | April 13, 2007 May 4, 2007 | Identifying information of students, faculty and universities must be removed | yes - will support | | | | x | | | Must |
16 | 4-May-07 | I would like to import student response data directly from my excel workbook | yes - will support | | | | | | x | Must |
17 | April 13, 2007 September 18, 2007 KBS | There must be a minimum level of data/metadata included for a submission to be accepted into the database | Must define minimum metadata standards | | | | | | x | Must |
18 | 19-Jun-07 | I would like demographic data returned. | yes - will support | | | | x | | | Must |
19 | 31-Jul-07 | I would like to upload my scientific reasoning instrument. Questions do not fit a discipline-based ontology This instrument is administered at multiple institutions. | yes | x | x | x | | x | | Must |
20 | 30-Aug-07 | Each student, class, course, institution, faculty member must have a unique identifier. | yes - will support | | | | | x | x | Must |
21 | 30-Aug-07 | Faculty members must be able to indicate pages on an exam that are blank, devoted to a figure, picture or formula | yes - completed? | | | | | | x | Must |
22 | 11-Sep-07 | Database must deal with multiple sections of a single course. | yes | | | | x | x | | Must |
23 | 9-Oct-07 | Data is returned completely anonymized/partially anonymized/not anonymized. | yes - completely anonymized | | | | x | | x | Must |
24 | 9-Oct-07 | I would like to track a cohort of students over time. | yes - will support | | | | x | x | | Must |
25 | 6-Nov-07 | Query returns must be constrained so as not to return a limited dataset that could result in the identification of a student. | yes - will support | | | | x | x | | Must |
26 | 4-Dec-07 | I would like data returned in a simple, rectangular format. | yes - will support | | | | | | x | Must |
27 | 10-Jan-08 | Instead of answering a litany of questions, I will upload my course syllabus. | pending | | | | x | | x | Must |
28 | KBS | I would like to upload a published assessment (e.g. Concept Inventory). | pending | x | x | x | | | | Must |
29 | KBS | Database must store unconventional assessments (models, pictures, diagrams, etc). | yes - will support | x | | | | | x | Must |
30 | 4-Feb-08 | How will assessment items be returned? Will users pick out one question at a time, or will they check off those questions they are interested in downloading? What format will questions be returned - xml, QTI, etc? | pending | x | | | x | | | Must |
31 | February 11, 2008 MU-L JLM | Demographic data - as uploaded by a faculty member - needs to be tagged with the date the data were current | pending | | | | | | x | Must |
32 | April 13, 2007 May 22, 2007 | Rubric: I would like to upload or download a rubric for this assessment item(s) | yes - will support | x | | x | | | | Must |
33 | 7-Feb-08 | User uploading data takes responsibility for anonymizing their syllabus. | yes - will support | | x | | | | | Must |
34 | 6-Nov-07 | I have no idea how to classify my assessment items. | no | | x | | | | | Must - user documentation |
35 | 4-Dec-07 | I would like data returned in some other format (what might those be?) | pending | | | | | | x | Must? |
36 | 18-May-07 | Find questions based on format (clicker, mc, short answer, etc) | pending -- can this information be gleaned from the parsing software? | x | | x | | x | | Nice |
37 | 18-May-07 | Find questions that include a particular format element (i.e. graph, particular model or image, etc). | outside current scope | | | | | | | Nice |
38 | 19-Jun-07 | I would like to see what concepts are considered difficult across disciplines. Are we going to compute dynamic meta data such as the difficulty of an item that would change based on the data from the students? Difficulty and other performance metrics should be dynamic, rather than asking faculty to upload them. | pending - will we provide simple analysis? | x | | x | | x | | Nice |
39 | 4-Dec-07 | I would like a simple analysis of change over time returned with the data. | pending | | | | x | x | | Nice |
40 | 10-Jan-08 | I would like my syllabus to be anonymized when uploaded. | pending | | | | x | | | Nice |
41 | February 4, 2008 MU-L JLM | Will the syllabus be query-able? Doesn't seem likely. Need to revisit minimum metadata standards. | pending | | | | | | | Nice |
42 | Purdue | I am an administrator and would like to use the database. | pending | | | | | | | Nice |
43 | Purdue | Administrator: would like to compare faculty based on: -student scores -average Bloom level per exam -average number of students taught a semester -course level taught | n/a | | | x | x | x | | Nice |
44 | 27-Nov-07 | User will be able to search nbii thesaurus and with a mouse click, add that concept tag to their assessment item(s). | yes? | x | | x | | | | Should |
45 | 13-Apr-07 | I would like to import data directly from my course management software (e.g. Angel, Blackboard, WebCT, etc) | outside current scope | | | | | | x | Should |
46 | 30-Aug-07 | Who can access the database? -- One solution: Two levels of data: Personal data (visible only to the individual who uploaded) and Public (visible to everyone) | pending | x | x | | | | | Should |
47 | 30-Aug-07 | The database must handle multiple instructors for a class -and- visiting instructors (i.e. faculty who are not officially on staff at an institution) | no | | | | x | x | | Should |
48 | 6-Nov-07 | I would like to find assessment items tagged as 'good' - search quality tags by a professional society. | yes - will support | x | | x | | x | | Should |
49 | 4-Dec-07 | I would like to query all R1 institutions, based on the Carnegie classification system. | pending | | | | | x | | Should |
50 | 4-Dec-07 | I would like my search history saved. Are we saving the query syntax or are we expecting to be able to reproduce the exact dataset? Can probably reproduce the dataset if the date that the data were uploaded is stored in the database and can be made part of the query. | pending | | | | | x | x | Should |
51 | 4-Dec-07 | I would like the details of my query returned with the results. | pending | | | | | | x | Should |
52 | KBS | I would like to filter out low-level Bloom questions, multiple choice questions, essay questions, etc. | pending | x | | | | x | | Should |
53 | KBS | I would like to find other faculty who are similar to me in teaching approach/assessment items/Bloom's level/etc. | pending | | | x | x | x | | Should |
54 | February 4, 2008 MU-L JLM | Administrator would like to show their program has met specific accreditation standards. | n/a | | | x | x | x | | Should |
55 | 12-Jun-07 | I would like to query across data levels (i.e. query for particular assessment items at an institution over time and courses | yes - will support | | | x | x | x | |