AGenT Zero: Zero-shot Automatic Multiple-Choice Question Generation for Skill Assessments

Understand

Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) offer the most promising avenue for skill evaluation in the era of virtual education and job recruiting, where traditional performance-based alternatives such as projects and essays have become less viable, and grading resources are constrained.

• The automated generation of MCQs would allow assessment creation at scale.
• Recent advances in natural language processing have given rise to many complex question generation methods.
• However, the few methods that produce deployable results in specific domains require a large amount of domain-specific training data that can be very costly to acquire.