Generating multiple choice questions from ontologies: How far can we go?

Abstract

Ontology-based Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) generation has a relatively short history. Many attempts have been carried out to developmethods to generate MCQs from ontologies. However, there is still a need to understand the applicability of these methods in real educational settings. In this paper, we present an empirical evaluation of ontologybased MCQ generation. We examine the feasibility of applying ontologybased MCQ generation methods by educators with no prior experience in ontology building. The findings of this study show that this is feasible and can result in generating a reasonable number of educationally useful questions with good predictions about their difficulty levels.