When teaching and assessing Reading Comprehension, ESL teachers used to write their own comprehension questions to go with a reading passage. Thanks to generative AI, this task can now be taken up by AI-powered question-generator apps.
There are now dozens of such apps. Below is my quick review of the free plans of 9 more wellknown ones. The common features include:
- There is a text box for users to paste in their passage. Many of them also allow users to upload a WORD/PDF file.
- The common question types that can be generated are: MC; blank-filling; open question; T/F; and matching.
- There are 3 levels of difficulty to choose from.
- The question set generated can be copied, or exported as a text document, or pdf.
At the some time, some of them have certain unique features. Examples:
- Some of the apps (e.g., Conker.ai; OpenExams) allow users to start with just a topic (instead of a passage). Type in a topic, and the app will first generate a passage, then a question set, for you.
- Most of the apps will generate a question set consisting of one question type (e.g., MC), but Conker.ai can generate a mixed bag of question types in one set.
- Quizbot.ai can even generate a question set from a Youtube video! (...making use of the Youtube transcript, I think.)
- Some, like Quizgecko, can start with a URL. Just type in a URL (a webpage; a newspaper article), and they will generate a question set for you.
- Quiz Wizard can even generate a question set from an audio/video file that you upload!
- Questgen can generate questions that correspond to the 6 levels of Bloom's Taxonomy. You can ask for (a) one quiz containing all 6 levels, or (b) one quiz with all questions on one particular level.
My own observation is that at the moment, these apps are good at creating questions that ask for specific information. They are still not very good at generating higher-order-thinking questions. (So we ESL teachers still have an important role to play in teaching Reading.)
MY REVIEW:
https://wakelet.com/wake/c4BvKKoqhQDPQAgDH9nWP
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