gus_massa
a year ago
[Hi from Argentina!]
I tried a few of the fill the lyrics games.
Are the empty slots "_____" chosen automatically or you selected them manually? What about the alternatives?
Some are very easy because the alternative makes no gramatical sense, or some sound too different to get confused. I'm not sure if this is good or bad. Do you have some insight about how you build them? [1]
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[1] I sometimes build multiple choice for math exams. We usually put 4 options with different difficulty. For 3(7-2) we would use, in a randomized order:
1) 15 (the correct one)
2) 19 (forget the parens, 37-2, very common error)
3) 27 (wrong sign, 3*(7+2), probably not common)
4) 12 (what! 3+7+2, just a trap in case they are choosing randomly)
Marcel92
a year ago
Thank you for checking it out!
I have an algorithm for it, but I also usually edit them manually as well. I usually select other words that match the part of speech (nouns to nouns & adjectives to adjectives), so that they would often make sense.
Some do end up being easy, but even if some are easy, the challenge is still to get 100% of them correct, which is certainly a challenge.
So it's not a very scientific approach, more intuitive based on practice and what feels right while testing.
gus_massa
a year ago
> So it's not a very scientific approach,
Don't be fooled by my fancy words, we are not using a very scientific approach to pick the options, only some general tricks and hopping that 20 questions are enough to smooth any wrong design. (And a few review pass by different persons to find bad options.)
> more intuitive based on practice and what feels right while testing.
Yep, that's probably a good description of our approach too.