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Students often do not fully understand the code they have written. This sometimes does not become evident until later in their education, which can mean it is harder to fix their incorrect knowledge or misunderstandings. In addition, being…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Martin Goodfellow , Robbie Booth , Andrew Fagan , Alasdair Lambert

Evaluating the quality of automatically generated question items has been a long standing challenge. In this paper, we leverage LLMs to simulate student profiles and generate responses to multiple-choice questions (MCQs). The generative…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-05-30 Xinyi Lu , Xu Wang

Multiple choice questions (MCQs) that can be generated from a domain ontology can significantly reduce human effort & time required for authoring & administering assessments in an e-Learning environment. Even though here are various methods…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-05 Vinu E. , Tahani Alsubait , P. Sreenivasa Kumar

Question-answering (QA) that comes naturally to humans is a critical component in seamless human-computer interaction. It has emerged as one of the most convenient and natural methods to interact with the web and is especially desirable in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Deepak Gupta

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are commonly used across all levels of math education since they can be deployed and graded at a large scale. A critical component of MCQs is the distractors, i.e., incorrect answers crafted to reflect…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Alexander Scarlatos , Wanyong Feng , Digory Smith , Simon Woodhead , Andrew Lan

Computational reductions are an important and powerful concept in computer science. However, they are difficult for many students to grasp. In this paper, we outline a concept for how the learning of reductions can be supported by…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Tristan Kneisel , Elias Radtke , Marko Schmellenkamp , Fabian Vehlken , Thomas Zeume

With rapid technological advancements, mobile learning (m-Learning) offers incredible opportunities, especially in the area of higher education. However, while interest in this area has been significant and several pilot studies have been…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Muasaad Alrasheedi , Luiz Fernando Capretz

Testing with quiz questions has proven to be an effective way to assess and improve the educational process. However, manually creating quizzes is tedious and time-consuming. To address this challenge, we present Leaf, a system for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Kristiyan Vachev , Momchil Hardalov , Georgi Karadzhov , Georgi Georgiev , Ivan Koychev , Preslav Nakov

Research-validated multiple-choice questions comprise an easy-to-implement instructional tool for scaffolding student learning and providing formative assessment of students' knowledge. We present findings from the implementation of a…

Physics Education · Physics 2024-10-16 Peter Hu , Yangqiuting Li , Chandralekha Singh

Technical interviews are a critical yet stressful step in the hiring process for computer science graduates, often hindered by limited access to practice opportunities. This formative qualitative study (n=20) explores whether a multimodal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Nathalia Gomez , S. Sue Batham , Matias Volonte , Tiffany D. Do

With the increasing capabilities of machine learning systems and their potential use in safety-critical systems, ensuring high-quality data is becoming increasingly important. In this paper we present a novel approach for the assurance of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Christian Sieberichs , Simon Geerkens , Alexander Braun , Thomas Waschulzik

Handling unanswerable questions (UAQ) is crucial for LLMs, as it helps prevent misleading responses in complex situations. While previous studies have built several datasets to assess LLMs' performance on UAQ, these datasets lack factual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chuanyuan Tan , Wenbiao Shao , Hao Xiong , Tong Zhu , Zhenhua Liu , Kai Shi , Wenliang Chen

Multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) is often used to evaluate large language models (LLMs). To see if MCQA assesses LLMs as intended, we probe if LLMs can perform MCQA with choices-only prompts, where models must select the correct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Nishant Balepur , Abhilasha Ravichander , Rachel Rudinger

Concept maps have been widely utilized in education to depict knowledge structures and the interconnections between disciplinary concepts. Nonetheless, devising a computational method for automatically constructing a concept map from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Jiho Noh , Mukhesh Raghava Katragadda , Dabae Lee

Knowledge tracing is a method used in education to assess and track the acquisition of knowledge by individual learners. It involves using a variety of techniques, such as quizzes, tests, and other forms of assessment, to determine what a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Yann Hicke

With the increased adoption of E-learning platforms, keeping online learners engaged throughout a lesson is challenging. One approach to tackle this challenge is to probe learn-ers periodically by asking questions. The paper presents an…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ritu Gala , Revathi Vijayaraghavan , Valmik Nikam , Arvind Kiwelekar

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are ubiquitous in almost all levels of education since they are easy to administer, grade, and are a reliable format in assessments and practices. One of the most important aspects of MCQs is the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-19 Wanyong Feng , Jaewook Lee , Hunter McNichols , Alexander Scarlatos , Digory Smith , Simon Woodhead , Nancy Otero Ornelas , Andrew Lan

The widespread adoption of Large Language Models (LLMs) has become commonplace, particularly with the emergence of open-source models. More importantly, smaller models are well-suited for integration into consumer devices and are frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Aisha Khatun , Daniel G. Brown

Interactive machine reading comprehension (iMRC) is machine comprehension tasks where knowledge sources are partially observable. An agent must interact with an environment sequentially to gather necessary knowledge in order to answer a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Xingdi Yuan

Informal learning on the Web using search engines as well as more structured learning on MOOC platforms have become very popular in recent years. As a result of the vast amount of available learning resources, intelligent retrieval and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Christian Otto , Markos Stamatakis , Anett Hoppe , Ralph Ewerth