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| Autor/inn/en | Yang, Albert C. M.; Chen, Irene Y. L.; Flanagan, Brendan; Ogata, Hiroaki |
|---|---|
| Titel | Automatic Generation of Cloze Items for Repeated Testing to Improve Reading Comprehension |
| Quelle | In: Educational Technology & Society, 24 (2021) 3, S.147-158 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
| ISSN | 1436-4522 |
| Schlagwörter | Cloze Procedure; Reading Comprehension; Reading Skills; Reading Improvement; Test Items; Repetition; Review (Reexamination); Learner Engagement; Automation; Artificial Intelligence; Electronic Publishing; Books; Testing; Undergraduate Students; Foreign Countries; Taiwan |
| Abstract | Reviewing learned knowledge is critical in the learning process. Testing the learning content instead of restudying, which is known as the testing effect, has been demonstrated to be an effective review strategy. However, education research recommends that instructors generate practice tests, but this burdens teachers and may also hinder teaching quality. To resolve this issue, the current study applied a modern artificial intelligence technique (BERT) to automate the generation of tests and evaluate the testing effect through e-books in a university lecture (N = 74). The last 5 minutes of each course session were utilized to review the taught content by having students either answer cloze item questions or restudy the summary of the core concepts covered in the lecture. A reading comprehension pretest was conducted before the experiment to ensure that the differences in prior knowledge were nonsignificant between groups, and a posttest was performed to examine the effectiveness of testing. In addition, we evaluated students' reading skills and reading engagement through their ability to identify key concepts and their interaction with e-books, respectively. A positive effect was observed for students who engaged in cloze item practice before the end of each class. The results indicated that the repeated testing group exhibited significantly better reading skills and engaged more with e-books than the restudying group did. More importantly, compared with only restudying the key concepts, answering the cloze items questions significantly improved students' reading comprehension. Our results suggest that machine-generated cloze testing may benefit learning in higher education. (As Provided). |
| Anmerkungen | International Forum of Educational Technology & Society. Available from: National Yunlin University of Science and Technology. No. 123, Section 3, Daxue Road, Douliu City, Yunlin County, Taiwan 64002. e-mail: journal.ets@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.j-ets.net/ |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
| Update | 2024/1/01 |
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