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

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    Authors
    Wesiak, G.
    Rizzardini, R.
    Amado-Salvatierra, H.
    Guetl, Christian
    Smadi, M.
    Date
    2013
    Type
    Conference Paper
    
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    Wesiak, Gudrun and Rizzardini, Rocael Hernández and Amado-Salvatierra, Hector and Guetl, Christian and Smadi, Mohammed. 2013. Automatic Test Item Creation in Self-Regulated Learning: Evaluating Quality of Questions in a Latin American Experience, in Foley, O. and Restivo, M.T. and Uhomoibhi, J. and and Helfert, M. (ed), Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU), May 6-8 2013, pp. 351-359. Aachen, Germany: SCITEPRESS.
    Source Title
    Proceedings 5th international Conference on Computer Supported Education
    Source Conference
    CSEDU 2013 5th International Conference on Computer Supported Education
    DOI
    10.5220/0004387803510360
    ISBN
    9789898565532
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/26572
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    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.

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