Automatic item generation of probability word problems

Studies in Educational Evaluation

Volumn 35, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 71-76

  Holling, Heinz ^a   Bertling, Jonas P ^a   Zeuch, Nina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evaluation methods; LLTM; Probability word problems; Rule based item design; Student evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849127004     PISSN: 0191491X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.stueduc.2009.10.004     Document Type: Article

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