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It has been shown that answering questions contributes to students learning effectively. However, generating questions is an expensive task and requires a lot of effort. Although there has been research reported on the automation of question generation in the literature of Natural Language Processing, these technologies do not necessarily generate questions that are useful for educational purposes. To fill this gap, we propose QUADL, a method for generating questions that are aligned with a given learning objective. The learning objective reflects the skill or concept that students need to learn. The QUADL method first identifies a key concept, if any, in a given sentence that has a strong connection with the given learning objective. It then converts the given sentence into a question for which the predicted key concept becomes the answer. The results from the survey using Amazon Mechanical Turk suggest that the QUADL method can be a step towards generating questions that effectively contribute to students’ learning.
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The research reported here was supported by National Science Foundation Grant No. 2016966 and No. 1623702 to North Carolina State University.
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Shimmei, M., Matsuda, N. (2021). Learning Association Between Learning Objectives and Key Concepts to Generate Pedagogically Valuable Questions. In: Roll, I., McNamara, D., Sosnovsky, S., Luckin, R., Dimitrova, V. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education. AIED 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12749. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78270-2_57
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