Controlling item difficulty for automatic vocabulary question generation
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Controlling item difficulty for automatic vocabulary question generation
The present study investigates the best factor for controlling the item difficulty of multiple-choice English vocabulary questions generated by an automatic question generation system. Three factors are considered for controlling item difficulty: (1) reading passage difficulty, (2) semantic similarity between the correct answer and distractors, and (3) the distractor word difficulty level. An e...
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عنوان ژورنال: Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1793-7078
DOI: 10.1186/s41039-017-0065-5