@inproceedings{heck-meurers-2023-using,
    title = "Using Learning Analytics for Adaptive Exercise Generation",
    author = "Heck, Tanja  and
      Meurers, Detmar",
    editor = {Kochmar, Ekaterina  and
      Burstein, Jill  and
      Horbach, Andrea  and
      Laarmann-Quante, Ronja  and
      Madnani, Nitin  and
      Tack, Ana{\"\i}s  and
      Yaneva, Victoria  and
      Yuan, Zheng  and
      Zesch, Torsten},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.4",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.bea-1.4",
    pages = "44--56",
    abstract = "Single Choice exercises constitute a central exercise type for language learning in a learner{'}s progression from mere implicit exposure through input enhancement to productive language use in open exercises. Distractors that support learning in the individual zone of proximal development should not be derived from static analyses of learner corpora, but rely on dynamic learning analytics based on half-open exercises. We demonstrate how a system{'}s error diagnosis module can be re-used for automatic and dynamic generation and adaptation of distractors, as well as to inform exercise generation in terms of relevant learning goals and reasonable chunking in Jumbled Sentences exercises.",
}

Single Choice exercises constitute a central exercise type for language learning in a learner{'}s progression from mere implicit exposure through input enhancement to productive language use in open exercises. Distractors that support learning in the individual zone of proximal development should not be derived from static analyses of learner corpora, but rely on dynamic learning analytics based on half-open exercises. We demonstrate how a system{'}s error diagnosis module can be re-used for automatic and dynamic generation and adaptation of distractors, as well as to inform exercise generation in terms of relevant learning goals and reasonable chunking in Jumbled Sentences exercises.
Heck, Tanja Meurers, Detmar
Using Learning Analytics for Adaptive Exercise Generation