Understand Institutional, Organizational, or Program Performance
If your organization or institution is interested in gaining greater access to student learning, performance and outcomes data (individual or aggregate), you will find several IMS GLC technical standards below to support you in this endeavor.
These technical standards enable interactions and data exchange between learning systems and administrative, student, or human resource systems, including exchange of course rosters, learner profiles, competencies/learning objectives and learning outcomes.
- Question and Test Interoperability (QTI) provides educators and learners insight via formative and summative assessment by providing standards for constructing, processing and exchanging online assessment information, test items, tests, and the reporting of test results at the institution, program or organizational level.
- Learning Information Services (LIS) defines data exchange between learning systems and administrative, student, or human resource systems, enabling the compilation and analysis of organizational or institutional data and performance metrics.
- Targeted Retention Systems (TRS) is developing a methodology consisting of processes and technologies that identify individual students at-risk of persisting to stated academic objectives and manage targeted interventions specific to the individual student’s need. This methodology will support an institution’s efforts to increase student persistence and reduce costs associated with recruiting new students.