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The FREMA project
The FREMA (Framework Reference Model for Assessment) reference model was the principal deliverable of the FREMA research project, which ran from April 2005 until October 2006.

This project was a joint collaboration amongst three UK Higher Education institutions
 * University of Southampton - Learning Technologies Group
 * Dr. Yvonne Howard (Project Manager)
 * Dr. David Millard (Technical Manager)
 * Dr. Hugh Davis (Principal Investigator)
 * Dr. Gary Wills
 * Mr. Lester Gilbert
 * University of Strathclyde - Department of Learning Services
 * Mr. Niall Sclater (now at The Open University)
 * Mr. Iain Tulloch
 * Dr. Rowin Young
 * University of Hull - e-Services Integration
 * Mr. Robert Sherratt
 * Dr. Steven Jeyes

FREMA was funded by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) as part of its E-Learning Framework (now relabelled as E-Framework) programme.

The project was charged with designing and implementing a reference model for the e-assessment domain. In particular, this model had to conform to JISC’s prescribed service-oriented architecture (SOA) for developing e-assessment applications. The latter paradigm aims to build applications (e.g. a plagiarism detection system) as a collection of one or more intercommunicating web services.

JISC did not impose an structural template for a reference model at the outset of the project; instead, the FREMA team was free to design it “from scratch”, taking into account a number of initial constraints.

Indeed FREMA was one of several concurrent e-learning reference model projects. For example, the XCRI project developed a reference model for exchanging course related information.

Main Deliverables of the FREMA project
The project produced the following main deliverables


 * A reference model (originally a MySQL database - now the semantic wiki you are currently accessing)
 * An ontology of the e-assessment domain
 * A set of e-assessment concepts, depicted in two concept maps
 * A glossary of e-assessment terms
 * A collection of e-assessment use cases (including "End to End Summative" and Peer Assessment)
 * SRC Cards - a notation to describe the responsibilites and collaborations of abstract services
 * Publications