ERIC Number: EJ1488408
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-1560-4292
EISSN: EISSN-1560-4306
Available Date: 2024-04-01
Automatic Question Generation for Spanish Textbooks: Evaluating Spanish Questions Generated with the Parallel Construction Method
Benny G. Johnson1; Rachel Van Campenhout1; Bill Jerome1; María Fernanda Castro1; Rodrigo Bistolfi1; Jeffrey S. Dittel1
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, v35 n3 p1044-1063 2025
The integration of formative practice questions with textbook content is a well-known method for increasing student learning, and recent advances in artificial intelligence have made automatic question generation a viable option for scaling this learning method to thousands of textbooks. To expand this method to even more students, a parallel construction approach was developed to utilize the question generation process in English to create questions for other languages, such as Spanish. However, validation of the Spanish questions by native speaking subject matter experts is a necessary step to ensure the questions generated through parallel construction are of the same quality and suitable for educational purposes. In this paper, questions were generated via parallel construction for six Spanish textbooks and evaluated by subject matter experts teaching those subjects at major universities in Mexico and Argentina. Results from this review are discussed and implications for future use and research outlined.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Artificial Intelligence, Spanish, Textbook Content, Automation, Questioning Techniques, Media Adaptation, Validity
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Argentina; Mexico
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Author Affiliations: 1VitalSource Technologies, Raleigh, NC, USA

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