Impact of Question Difficulty on Engagement and Learning

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Authors

PAPOUŠEK Jan STANISLAV Vít PELÁNEK Radek

Year of publication 2016
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Intelligent Tutoring Systems: 13th International Conference
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Web http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39583-8_28
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39583-8_28
Field Informatics
Keywords evaluation; engagement; learning curves; optimal difficulty
Description We study the impact of question difficulty on learners’ engagement and learning using an experiment with an open online educational system for adaptive practice of geography. The experiment shows that easy questions are better for short term engagement, whereas difficult questions are better for long term engagement and learning. These results stress the necessity of careful formalization of goals and optimization criteria of open online education systems. We also present disaggregation of overall results into specific contexts of practice.
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