Interpreting Expert Knowledge For Computerized Question Generation

It’s the night before his organic chemistry examination, but John isn’t ready for the test. Sure, he studied all week for the test, but he still doesn’t have a firm grasp of all the material and he knows his professors wouldn’t be happy with him if he woke them up now, at 1:30 A.M. So, he sits down at his PC and launches his browser, guiding it to the “Question Generator” homepage where he logs on and selects the subject “Organic Chemistry.” He cycles through a series of questions, some of which he answers correctly. When he gets one wrong, a tutorial pops up and explains his error before giving him the correct answer. When he reaches the end of the questions, he restarts the generator from the beginning, and it provides him with a second series of randomly formulated questions. John continues this process until well into the morning, when he finally falls asleep, his hand frozen in a cup-like shape over his mouse.