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What authors need to provide

Authors need to provide a lot of information and structure to build an INDIE GBS:

Domain elements: This includes a domain (such as geology, pet care, etc.) that has been broken down into tests, results of tests in response to various possible scenarios, potential ASK questions and answers, and evidence points for those ASK answers (if needed). They need to know how they want to cross-link this data together, combining questions and answers, results and questions, and tests and responses.

Teaching points: Authors need to understand what skills they want their students to learn. In Volcano, the skill is volcano prediction through scientific testing. Authors also need to know what other related knowledge students should learn. In Volcano, authors are trying to teach basic volcanology, with incidental knowledge about plate tectonics, the dangers (and excitement) of volcanoes, and how volcanologists deal with real people. Although th


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Wolff Dobson
1998-07-28