Advanced Methods in Automatic Item Generation

Mark J. Gierl is Professor of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, Canada. He holds the Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Educational Measurement. Hollis Lai is Associate Professor of Dentistry in the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Canada. Vasily Tanygin is a full-stack software developer who has over a decade of experience creating automatic item generation and educational assessment technologies. He graduated with a specialist degree in software systems development from Mari State Technical University, Russia.

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Changing Context of Educational Testing

Section 1: Basic Concepts Required for Generating Constructed- and Selected-Response Items

Chapter 2. Cognitive Model Development: Cognitive Models and Item Generation

Chapter 3. Item Model Development: Template-Based AIG Using Item Modelling

Chapter 4. Item Generation: Three General Approaches for Generating Test Items

Chapter 5. Distractor Generation: The Importance of the Selected-Response Item in Educational Testing

Chapter 6. Putting It All Together to Generate Test Items: Overview

Chapter 7. Methods for Validating Generated Items: A Focus on Model-Level Outcomes

Section 2: Advanced Topics in AID

Chapter 8. Content Coding: Challenges Inherent to Managing Generated Items in a Bank

Chapter 9. Generating Alternative Item Types Using Auxiliary Information: Expanding the Expression of Generated Items

Chapter 10. Rationale Generation: Creating Rationales as Part of the Generation Process

Chapter 11. Multilingual Item Generation: Beyond Monolingual Item Development

Chapter 12. Conclusions and Future Directions