org.osid.assessment

Interface Assessment

All Superinterfaces:

Browsable, Extensible, Identifiable, OsidObject

public interface Assessment
extends OsidObject

An Assessment represents a sequence of assessment items. Like all OSID objects, an Assessment is identified by its Id and any persisted references should use the Id.

An Assessment may have an accompanying rubric used for assessing performance. The rubric assessment is established canonically in this Assessment.

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
AssessmentRecord	getAssessmentRecord(Type assessmentRecordType) Gets the assessment record corresponding to the given Assessment record Type.
Grade	getLevel() Gets the Grade corresponding to the assessment difficulty.
Id	getLevelId() Gets the Id of a Grade corresponding to the assessment difficulty.
Assessment	getRubric() Gets the rubric.
Id	getRubricId() Gets the Id of the rubric.
boolean	hasRubric() Tests if a rubric assessment is associated with this assessment.

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.OsidObject

getDescription, getDisplayName, getGenusType, isOfGenusType

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Identifiable

getId, isCurrent

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Extensible

getRecordTypes, hasRecordType

Methods inherited from interface org.osid.Browsable

getProperties, getPropertiesByRecordType

Method Detail

getLevelId

Id getLevelId()

Gets the Id of a Grade corresponding to the assessment difficulty.

Returns:

a grade Id

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.

getLevel

Grade getLevel()
               throws OperationFailedException

Gets the Grade corresponding to the assessment difficulty.

Returns:

the level

Throws:

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.

hasRubric

boolean hasRubric()

Tests if a rubric assessment is associated with this assessment.

Returns:

true if a rubric is available, false otherwise

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.

getRubricId

Id getRubricId()

Gets the Id of the rubric.

Returns:

an assessment Id

Throws:

IllegalStateException - hasRubric() is false

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.

getRubric

Assessment getRubric()
                     throws OperationFailedException

Gets the rubric.

Returns:

the assessment

Throws:

IllegalStateException - hasRubric() is false

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.

getAssessmentRecord

AssessmentRecord getAssessmentRecord(Type assessmentRecordType)
                                     throws OperationFailedException

Gets the assessment record corresponding to the given Assessment record Type. This method is used to retrieve an object implementing the requested record. The assessmentRecordType may be the Type returned in getRecordTypes() or any of its parents in a Type hierarchy where hasRecordType(assessmentRecordType) is true .

Parameters:

assessmentRecordType - the type of the record to retrieve

Returns:

the assessment record

Throws:

NullArgumentException - assessmentRecordType is null

OperationFailedException - unable to complete request

UnsupportedException - hasRecordType(assessmentRecordType) is false

Compliance:

mandatory - This method must be implemented.