Automatic Generation of Multiple-choice Test with Guide to Error Solution by Prolog

Abstract

In this paper, we describe the concept of Simulation of Erroneous Solution (SES) to generate an adequate number of distractors and the erroneous solution in multiple-choice questions. SES is a method of generating a solution from wrong knowledge to wrong answer, by a perturbation from problem-solving knowledge to knowledge of wrong answer derivation. The perturbation is projected on a student's typical error, and the perturbation operator expresses the difference between the erroneous solution and the correct solution. We confirmed that forty eight questions and a hundred twenty eight explanation text about the distractors are automatically generated from seventeen Prolog clauses as knowledge into SES, and the SES has the potential for generating relevant distractors and the erroneous solution.