Overcoming Student Passivity with Automatic Item Generation

Sebastian Kucharski, Florian Stahr, Iris Braun, Gregor Damnik

2024

Abstract

Studying at German universities is often associated with a passive mode of learning. Using learning tasks and (self-)test items is an effective way to address this issue. However, due to the high cost of creation, these materials are rarely provided to learners. The approach of Automatic Item Generation (AIG) allows for the resource-efficient generation of learning tasks and (self-)test items. This paper demonstrates, after presenting general ideas of AIG, how tasks or items can be automatically generated using the AIG Model Editor designed at TUD Dresden University of Technology. Subsequently, items generated using the AIG approach are compared with items created in a traditional manner. The results show that automatically generated items have comparable properties to traditionally created items, but their generation requires much less effort than the traditional creation, thus making AIG appear as a promising alternative for supporting active learning at universities.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Kucharski S., Stahr F., Braun I. and Damnik G. (2024). Overcoming Student Passivity with Automatic Item Generation. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: AIG; ISBN 978-989-758-697-2, SciTePress, pages 789-798. DOI: 10.5220/0012747500003693

in Bibtex Style

@conference{aig24,
author={Sebastian Kucharski and Florian Stahr and Iris Braun and Gregor Damnik},
title={Overcoming Student Passivity with Automatic Item Generation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: AIG},
year={2024},
pages={789-798},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012747500003693},
isbn={978-989-758-697-2},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: AIG
TI - Overcoming Student Passivity with Automatic Item Generation
SN - 978-989-758-697-2
AU - Kucharski S.
AU - Stahr F.
AU - Braun I.
AU - Damnik G.
PY - 2024
SP - 789
EP - 798
DO - 10.5220/0012747500003693
PB - SciTePress