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 Details

    • 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.