Contributors
Starting with version 9.0 of the CBA ItemBuilder, item-projects created with this authoring tool can be flexibly integrated into various HTML-based execution environments without the need for special server components. I have taken this milestone as an opportunity to combine the existing documentation and the CBA ItemBuilder Wiki in a new user book-length documentation.
This book would not be possible without the support of
- all previous and current CBA ItemBuilder users,2
- Frank Goldhammer (Center for Technology-based Assessment), Eckhard Klieme (retired Director of the department of Educational Quality and Evaluation and Research Fellow at DIPF) and Marc Rittberger (Director of the Information Center for Education),
- Robert Baumann, Ingow Barkow, Paul Libbrecht and Daniel Schiffner (IT engineers at the Center for Technology-Based Assessment),
- Margit Mikula, Marisa Herrmann, Gabriele Gissler and Britta Upsing (CBA Item author support and early users of the CBA ItemBuilder at the Center for Technology-Based Assessment),
- Rachel Ghebrehawariat and Angelika Sichma (project assistants at the Center for Technology-Based Assessment),
- all former and current doctoral students at the Center for Technology-Based Assessment,
- student assistants at the Center for Technology-Based Assessment,
- and many others.
The idea of creating an authoring tool for the implementation of complex interactive items goes back to Jean Paul Reef and was supervised conceptually and organizationally by Heiko Rölke in the first years at the Center for Technology-based Assessment at the DIPF (Rölke 2012).
Special thanks go to the long-standing cooperation partners Softcon GmbH / naragro AG (Michel Dorochevsky, Constantin von Kirschten and the entire team).