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A study of recent techniques to estimate the difficulty of exam questions from text

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  • UserLuca Benedetto (University of Cambridge) Speaker website
  • ClockFriday 21 October 2022, 12:00-13:00
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Abstract: Question Difficulty Estimation (QDE) from text is the application of Natural Language Processing techniques to estimate a value, either numerical or categorical, which represents the difficulty of an exam question. In recent years, it gained a fair amount of research attention as it enables to partially overcome the limitations of traditional approaches to QDE , which are either subjective (manual calibration) or require to show newly created questions to students (pretesting), which is undesirable. In this presentation, I will give an introduction to the field, present some of the state of the art approaches, and outline opportunities for further research.

Bio: Dr. Luca Benedetto is a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, working within the NLIP group and the ALTA institute. Previously, he obtained his PhD from Politecnico di MIlano and worked as a Data Scientist in Cloud Academy. His research interests cover the automated evaluation and creation of learning and assessment content, and the modeling of student’s knowledge level.

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