A Learning Support System based on Question-posing and Its Evaluation

The impact of question generation activities on performance

“…significant and positive correlations between activity and performance present in both courses are consistent with previous studies involving similar tools[21,13,7,5,2,19].…”

“…To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Evaluations of these tools have shown positive correlations between activity and performance [2,7,5,13,19]. However, this effect could be an epiphenomenon, occurring because "good" students who work hard during a course are more involved in all course-related activities (e.g.…”

“…Studies of QPPA [21], Concerto [13], PeerWise [7,5], QSIA [2] and ExamNet [19] have attempted to address the impact of the intervention on student performance by focusing on the relationship between student activity and performance. In studies involving Concerto [13], QSIA [2] and PeerWise [5], an attempt is made to control for prior ability.…”

“…In studies involving Concerto [13], QSIA [2] and PeerWise [5], an attempt is made to control for prior ability. However, none of the studies compare the level of student engagement in question generation activities with other activities in the same course.…”

“…The questions are peer-reviewed and may be used by other students for drill-and-practice [15]. A number of purposebuilt tools have been designed to support this approach [2,21,20,19,6,16,8,13].…”