Very short answer questions: a viable alternative to multiple choice questions

Guessing in Multiple Choice Questions: Challenges and Strategies

Introduction: Guessing is one of the most challenging issues in multiple choice questions. Several strategies, such as negative scoring, have been suggested for preventing students from choosing the right answer just by chance. However, there is no general agreement on using such strategies. The aim of this study was to review the scoring methods which are used for reducing guessing, and evalua...

Multiple Choice Questions

Analysis of Multiple Choice Questions Based On Classical Test Theory

Introduction: The aim of this study was to use Classical Test Theory (CTT) software for qualitative and quantitative analysis of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) for Master students of health discipline. Methods: This study was carried out on two groups each including 50 undergraduate students of public health, and two groups of 50 and 26 undergraduate students of occupational health. The final...

Learning to answer questions

We present an open-domain QuestionAnswering system that learns to answer questions based on successful past interactions. We follow a pattern-based approach to Answer Extraction, where (lexico-syntactic) patterns that relate a question to its answer are automatically learned and used to answer future questions. Results show that our approach contributes to the system’s best performance when it ...

Answer to BT questions

BitTorrent is a P2P file distribution system designed for distributing large files. The current mechanism used to implement BitTorrent does not support streaming of data but with few changes in the protocols of BitTorrent this system can also be used for streaming data. Two important mechanisms which we have to consider while making changes are BT’s Piece selection mechanism and Incentive mecha...