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Integrating personalized medical test contents with XML and XSL-FO

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dc.creator Frankewitsch Thomas
dc.creator Dugas Martin
dc.creator Toddenroth Dennis
dc.date 2011-03-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:16:46Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:16:46Z
dc.identifier 10.1186/1472-6920-11-8
dc.identifier 1472-6920
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/a2a418b80d174e6a8018485b51447ab1
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/25843
dc.description <p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In 2004 the adoption of a modular curriculum at the medical faculty in Muenster led to the introduction of centralized examinations based on multiple-choice questions (MCQs). We report on how organizational challenges of realizing faculty-wide personalized tests were addressed by implementation of a specialized software module to automatically generate test sheets from individual test registrations and MCQ contents.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>Key steps of the presented method for preparing personalized test sheets are (1) the compilation of relevant item contents and graphical media from a relational database with database queries, (2) the creation of Extensible Markup Language (XML) intermediates, and (3) the transformation into paginated documents.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>The software module by use of an open source print formatter consistently produced high-quality test sheets, while the blending of vectorized textual contents and pixel graphics resulted in efficient output file sizes. Concomitantly the module permitted an individual randomization of item sequences to prevent illicit collusion.</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>The automatic generation of personalized MCQ test sheets is feasible using freely available open source software libraries, and can be efficiently deployed on a faculty-wide scale.</p>
dc.language English
dc.publisher BioMed Central
dc.relation http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6920/11/8
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1472-6920
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source BMC Medical Education, Vol 11, Iss 1, p 8 (2011)
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject DOAJ:Medicine (General)
dc.subject DOAJ:Health Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Medicine (General)
dc.subject R5-920
dc.subject Medicine
dc.subject R
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Integrating personalized medical test contents with XML and XSL-FO
dc.type article


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