Evaluation of the Impact of Question Difficulty on Engagement and Learning

PAPOUŠEK, Jan, Vít STANISLAV and Radek PELÁNEK. Evaluation of the Impact of Question Difficulty on Engagement and Learning. Brno, 2016, 13 pp.

Basic information

• Original name: Evaluation of the Impact of Question Difficulty on Engagement and Learning
• Authors: PAPOUŠEK, Jan, Vít STANISLAV and Radek PELÁNEK.
• Edition: Brno, 13 pp. 2016.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Research report
• Field of Study: 10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Keywords in English: evaluation, engagement, learning curves, optimal difficulty

Abstract

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 and highlight the issue of attrition bias. This paper is an extended version of the paper presented at Intelligent Tutoring Systems conference.

Links

• MUNI/A/0945/2015, interní kód MU: Name: Rozsáhlé výpočetní systémy: modely, aplikace a verifikace V.

Investor: Masaryk University, Category A