Automatic Test Item Creation in Self-Regulated Learning - Evaluating Quality of Questions in a Latin American Experience

Gudrun Wesiak, Rocael Hernandez Rizzardini, Hector Amado-Salvatierra, Christian Guetl, Mohammed Smadi

2013

Abstract

The research area of self-regulated learning (SRL) has shown the importance of the learner’s role in their cognitive and meta-cognitive strategies to self-regulate their learning. One fundamental step is to self-assess the knowledge acquired, to identify key concepts, and review the understanding about them. In this paper, we present an experimental setting in Guatemala, with students from several countries. The study provides evaluation results from the use of an enhanced automatic question creation tool (EAQC) for a self-regulated learning online environment. In addition to assessment quality, motivational and emotional aspects, usability, and tasks value are addressed. The EAQC extracts concepts from a given text and automatically creates different types of questions based on either the self-generated concepts or on concepts supplied by the user. The findings show comparable quality of automatically and human generated concepts, while questions created by a teacher were in part evaluated higher than computer-generated questions. Whereas difficulty and terminology of questions were evaluated equally, teacher questions where considered to be more relevant and more meaningful. Therefore, future improvements should especially focus on these aspects of questions quality.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wesiak G., Hernandez Rizzardini R., Amado-Salvatierra H., Guetl C. and Smadi M. (2013). Automatic Test Item Creation in Self-Regulated Learning - Evaluating Quality of Questions in a Latin American Experience . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-8565-53-2, pages 351-360. DOI: 10.5220/0004387803510360

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu13,
author={Gudrun Wesiak and Rocael Hernandez Rizzardini and Hector Amado-Salvatierra and Christian Guetl and Mohammed Smadi},
title={Automatic Test Item Creation in Self-Regulated Learning - Evaluating Quality of Questions in a Latin American Experience},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2013},
pages={351-360},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004387803510360},
isbn={978-989-8565-53-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Automatic Test Item Creation in Self-Regulated Learning - Evaluating Quality of Questions in a Latin American Experience
SN - 978-989-8565-53-2
AU - Wesiak G.
AU - Hernandez Rizzardini R.
AU - Amado-Salvatierra H.
AU - Guetl C.
AU - Smadi M.
PY - 2013
SP - 351
EP - 360
DO - 10.5220/0004387803510360