Semiautomatic Annotation of Test Materials in an ITS Authoring System

Reducing effort and time consumption has always been the main focus in Intelligent Tutoring System Authoring Systems (ITSAS). In this paper, we propose a methodology to semi-automatically annotate test items (questions) using test item analysis in an ITSAS. We also discuss how this mechanism can reduce the overhead of the teachers and make ITS authoring simpler and less time consuming. It is also explained how question annotation through test item analysis can improve the efficacy of the ITS. Finally, we demonstrate an instance of a test item analysis to describe the annotation of test items and also the benefits received by the authors. It is also shown that semi-automatic annotation can reduce the test material authoring time considerably, through an experiment.