Development and hosting of a web application in PHP Symphony open and open source.
Context
In 2024, the Ministry of National Education, associated with Norway, Lithuania, Brazil and Italy, ordered the creation of the International Item Library (BII), which aims to share student assessment content, items (questions), created by institutions specialized in the field of standardized assessment as widely as possible.
The BII will allow free access to these items in order to use them in evaluation programs, to collect additional data and to promote collaborations between countries.
These thousands of items can then be re-used to measure the achievement of skill thresholds, used for the indicators associated with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with reference to the Unesco framework.
On a longer term vision, the BII aims to give access to professors and teaching teams to have a real evaluation window on request.
Challenges
- Lead a consortium of 6 institutions with an international presence.
- Large panel of personalities to be interviewed (professors, statisticians etc...) for a product with a new scope. Need to reconcile all the tensions of discovery.
- Integrate the item interoperability standard (QTI standard, international standard).
Our approach
A team of 16 Theodo experts - 1 Lead PM, 1 EM, 1 EM, 1 Market Director, 1 PO, 3 UX/UI Designers, 2 Ops, 6 Software Engineers, 1 Tech Lead - supported the BII teams, before transmitting the Run to 2 teams for the application and the cloud.
What made the difference:
Design to Cost
Deliver a product with a time constraint and a fixed scope. Need to reconcile product interests and delivery.
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Just-in-Time
Thanks to design-to-cost, we were able to deliver a product on time.
