AI Assessment - Test & Quiz Generation

As an educator, your time is precious. Leveraging Generative AI (Gen AI) to create tests and quizzes can drastically reduce the time spent on administrative tasks, allowing you to focus on engaging with your students, planning innovative lessons, and providing individualized support. AI-generated content ensures high-quality and diverse question types, catering to different learning needs and aligning with curriculum standards. The customization and flexibility offered by Gen AI allow you to tailor assessments to reflect the unique needs of your learners, ensuring relevance and engagement while maintaining consistency and fairness. Gen AI can support minimizing bias while promoting an equitable and differentiated learning environment.

WHY Is This Important

Quickly adapting to new topics, standards, and student needs is crucial. Gen AI enables instant adaptability, keeping your teaching materials current and aligned with the latest trends.

What Will Be Learned?

Generating assessment questions
Generating solutions to questions
Aligning assessments with learning objectives
Analyzing data results

Caution Is Required: Learn more about why and what data needs to be protected. Three Prompt Examples supporting the need for caution are provided 2.1 Understanding AI Systems, 2.2 Evaluating AI Outputs, 2.3 Privacy and Data Rights and 2.4 Ethics and Responsibility.

Tools (optional)

These tools are in addition to the ones explored in the Reflective Practices area.

Explore the list of tools found here in the article from Educators Technology Best AI Question Generators by Med Kharbuch, PhD, May 2024. These tools offer an alternative to creating your own question through communication with a Large Language Model (LLM). The applications all have customized queries for the user to upload and communicate needs for the generation of assessment questions.
Magic School Questions Feature: This feature is designed to create personalized questions and assessments for students based on their learning needs and abilities.
Quiz Maker -The Quiz Maker, an add-on for LLMs is a user-friendly tool that allows users to create quizzes effortlessly. Users provide a topic or text, and the tool generates questions. The tool analyzes the input shared to craft engaging and relevant questions, which users can then review and customize. Once the quiz is finalized, it can be easily shared via a unique link, making it perfect for educational, training, or entertainment purposes. This streamlined process makes quiz creation accessible to everyone, enhancing learning and engagement.

GPT for Google Forms: GPT for Google Forms provides tools integrated with Google Forms to create tests and quizzes. It also features automated feedback, creative writing assistance, and enhanced surveys to support insights into student responses.

Reflective Practices

Reflective Practices
1.	How to Use ChatGPT Quiz Generator: A Detailed Guide, Avadia AI (Article) ChatGPT Quiz, Marketing Island, 2023 (Video 5 minutes 20 seconds) Why Should I View this? Crafting straight forward tests and quizzes using AI Chatbots like ChatGPT is relatively simple. However, to harness the most in-depth possibilities of using an LLM to generate assessments, educators must understand how to compose detailed and nuanced prompts.	What are the most important factors to consider when using Generative AI to create tests and quizzes? In what ways would these tools support your classroom? Ethical Use You cannot take AI-generated testing material at face value; several vital factors should be considered to ensure the assessments are practical, fair, and reliable. Ensure the content aligns with curriculum standards and learning objectives, accurately reflecting the educational material. Review and adjust the AI-generated content to avoid biases and ensure cultural sensitivity and inclusivity. The articles below will support your ability to measure the effectiveness and fairness of your tests and quizzes. The knowledge gained will also help you craft and refine your chatbot prompts. Constructing Test (website), University of Washington. The information will support and refresh the reader on essential aspects to consider when crafting assessments and evaluating their effectiveness. These aspects will help ensure your AI Chatbot prompts yield the desired outcomes. 6 Ways To Ensure Your Assessment Practices Are Fair And Unbiased, The University of Washington, Linda Suskie and Wiley,2019. This article supports educators in being aware of the various types of bias that may be present in generated content.	Identify the content for which you want to generate a test or quiz. Use Gen AI to create the assessment and ensure it aligns with the targeted learning objectives. Options: Utilize a Gen AI chatbot of your choice to generate various questions (multiple choice, short answer, essay, etc.) for your chosen lesson unit or content. Try Quiz Maker, a ChatGPT add-on, to generate your assessment. Use the example prompts from the provided resources to compose your prompts. Generate a test using Magic School. It has a free trial. Upload a current test or quiz into the LLM of your choice and prompt it to create a set of alternative questions based on student learning styles and identified areas of need from the shared data. Review this Sample Prompt to aid you in creating your own. Using ChatGPT Prompts to Generate Assessment Questions, Playerpower, Nirmal Patel May 2023. provides example prompts to help you develop the ability to customize and create assessment questions independently.
2.	A Decision Tree to Support Student AI Use. Edutopia, Jen Stauffer, Jonathan GoldMatt Bergman, July 2024. Why Should I Read This? If you are ready to empower students to harness AI to support their learning by creating prompts, questions, and assessments to support their own assessment of their learning, the article provides a PDF document that lays out a sample plan for the introduction on how to accomplish this.	Ethical Use When introducing students to Generative AI (Gen AI) to enhance their learning, emphasize its role as a supplementary tool rather than a replacement for critical thinking. Encourage using Gen AI to clarify concepts, gather information, generate ideas, and help brainstorm for essays and projects. Teach students to critically evaluate AI responses by cross-checking with credible sources and analyzing the validity of the AI’s output. Foster creativity by using AI to inspire writing or project ideas and explore innovative problem-solving techniques. Ask yourself how you can introduce students to using Gen AI effectively to enhance their learning experience without using it strictly as an answer or solution generator.	Introducing students to training chatbots as mentors. The resource “Introduction to AI for Students” by AI for Education provides detailed lessons to support students in learning how to accomplish this. Choose a lesson from the resource and facilitate it with students. Remember to modify the lesson with the LLM of your choice if needed. Practice creating questions with the tutor by Khan Academy, Khanmigo Lite. You will add it to your ChatGPT sidebar tools. Go to explore GPTs and search for “Tutor Me.” Review the video Five Incredible ChatGPT Chrome Extensions for more add-ons. They will allow you to interface with ChatGPT uniquely to support your and your student's learning and productivity. Other browsers will have their own add-ons.
3.	Using AI to Write Learning Objectives, by Peter Marik, May 2024, (LinkedIn Post) Why Should I Read This? Learn how AI can revolutionize the creation of effective learning objectives, a crucial element for educational success. This article shows how AI can help compose objectives that ensure clarity and measurability of data, align with assessments and targeted outcomes, and provide feedback for improvement.	How do you currently align your learning objectives with your lesson plans? Have there been times when your lesson design was out of alignment? When did you discover it? Would a Generative AI tool have served as a benefit? Ethical Use When sharing performance data within an LLM, how can you avoid breaching student privacy standards and laws? The resource Securing Student Data in the Age of Generative AI, by Anjali Nambiar, 2024, introduces a tool for data privacy in K12 schools. Several points are shared that will support your ability to secure student data when using AI in your classroom.	Choose a lesson plan you have facilitated in the past, or select a sample from a site such as GoOpen Michigan, which is an outstanding resource for lesson plans and activities. Prompt the LLM of your choice to evaluate those objectives' strengths and suggest alternatives. Next, use your objective to create prompts to generate an assessment of your choice inside the LLM of your choice.
4.	he EducationWeek article Teacher Collaboration Often Means Analyzing Student Data to Boost Learning. But Does It Work? By Ronald S. Thomas, March 2021. Why Should I Read This? As educators face the challenges of effectively utilizing student assessment data, generative AI chatbots can be a powerful tool to enhance data analysis, drive instructional improvement, and foster collaborative discussions among teacher teams. Ronald S. Thomas, an experienced educator and faculty member at Towson University, emphasizes the need for structured protocols and actionable conversations around data to maximize its impact on student learning.	How often do you assess student data? How often do you share and review data with students? Is it time-consuming? How could AI support your efforts? Ethical Use What critical conversations must you have with students to raise awareness of avoiding privacy issues? As you read the article Why Student Data Remains At Risk- and What Educators are Doing to Protect It, by Kara Arundel, December 2022, ask yourself what safety considerations you can add to what you already do. The video Critical Data Privacy Issues with AI (1 minutes 6 seconds) by Patents Demystified provides a brief and poignant description of why one must be careful about what they put into GEN AI chatbots	Suggestion 1: Data on its own is meaningless. It needs to tell a story. Upload student testing data free of student-identifiable information into the LLM of your choice. Create a data story from the data you provide with the assistance of the LLM. The story should provide readers with insights into future lesson planning and targeting specific learner needs. What gaps were identified? Were there results that surprised you? Suggestion 2: Use the following questions from the document Guiding Questions for Analyzing Student Data by Lynn Fuchs and Lee Kern to create prompts for conversing with your chosen chatbot and discover how it supports modifying your lesson plans and learning objectives. What patterns do the data reveal? What might data reveal about students’ needs? What adaptations may be needed to make the intervention more effective? How can this information help you create assessments?

References

Guiding Reflection Questions

Suggested Action Steps

How to Use ChatGPT Quiz Generator: A Detailed Guide, Avadia AI (Article)

ChatGPT Quiz, Marketing Island, 2023 (Video 5 minutes 20 seconds)

Why Should I View this?

Crafting straight forward tests and quizzes using AI Chatbots like ChatGPT is relatively simple. However, to harness the most in-depth possibilities of using an LLM to generate assessments, educators must understand how to compose detailed and nuanced prompts.

What are the most important factors to consider when using Generative AI to create tests and quizzes?

In what ways would these tools support your classroom?

Ethical Use

You cannot take AI-generated testing material at face value; several vital factors should be considered to ensure the assessments are practical, fair, and reliable. Ensure the content aligns with curriculum standards and learning objectives, accurately reflecting the educational material. Review and adjust the AI-generated content to avoid biases and ensure cultural sensitivity and inclusivity.

The articles below will support your ability to measure the effectiveness and fairness of your tests and quizzes. The knowledge gained will also help you craft and refine your chatbot prompts.

Constructing Test (website), University of Washington. The information will support and refresh the reader on essential aspects to consider when crafting assessments and evaluating their effectiveness. These aspects will help ensure your AI Chatbot prompts yield the desired outcomes.

6 Ways To Ensure Your Assessment Practices Are Fair And Unbiased, The University of Washington, Linda Suskie and Wiley,2019.

This article supports educators in being aware of the various types of bias that may be present in generated content.

Identify the content for which you want to generate a test or quiz. Use Gen AI to create the assessment and ensure it aligns with the targeted learning objectives.

Options:

Utilize a Gen AI chatbot of your choice to generate various questions (multiple choice, short answer, essay, etc.) for your chosen lesson unit or content. Try Quiz Maker, a ChatGPT add-on, to generate your assessment.

Use the example prompts from the provided resources to compose your prompts.

Generate a test using Magic School. It has a free trial.
Upload a current test or quiz into the LLM of your choice and prompt it to create a set of alternative questions based on student learning styles and identified areas of need from the shared data. Review this Sample Prompt to aid you in creating your own.

Using ChatGPT Prompts to Generate Assessment Questions, Playerpower, Nirmal Patel May 2023. provides example prompts to help you develop the ability to customize and create assessment questions independently.

A Decision Tree to Support Student AI Use. Edutopia, Jen Stauffer, Jonathan GoldMatt Bergman, July 2024.

Why Should I Read This?

If you are ready to empower students to harness AI to support their learning by creating prompts, questions, and assessments to support their own assessment of their learning, the article provides a PDF document that lays out a sample plan for the introduction on how to accomplish this.

Ethical Use

When introducing students to Generative AI (Gen AI) to enhance their learning, emphasize its role as a supplementary tool rather than a replacement for critical thinking.

Encourage using Gen AI to clarify concepts, gather information, generate ideas, and help brainstorm for essays and projects.

Teach students to critically evaluate AI responses by cross-checking with credible sources and analyzing the validity of the AI’s output.

Foster creativity by using AI to inspire writing or project ideas and explore innovative problem-solving techniques.

Ask yourself how you can introduce students to using Gen AI effectively to enhance their learning experience without using it strictly as an answer or solution generator.

Introducing students to training chatbots as mentors. The resource “Introduction to AI for Students” by AI for Education provides detailed lessons to support students in learning how to accomplish this.

Choose a lesson from the resource and facilitate it with students. Remember to modify the lesson with the LLM of your choice if needed.

Practice creating questions with the tutor by Khan Academy, Khanmigo Lite. You will add it to your ChatGPT sidebar tools. Go to explore GPTs and search for “Tutor Me.”

Review the video Five Incredible ChatGPT Chrome Extensions for more add-ons. They will allow you to interface with ChatGPT uniquely to support your and your student's learning and productivity. Other browsers will have their own add-ons.

Using AI to Write Learning Objectives, by Peter Marik, May 2024, (LinkedIn Post)

Why Should I Read This?

Learn how AI can revolutionize the creation of effective learning objectives, a crucial element for educational success. This article shows how AI can help compose objectives that ensure clarity and measurability of data, align with assessments and targeted outcomes, and provide feedback for improvement.

How do you currently align your learning objectives with your lesson plans?

Have there been times when your lesson design was out of alignment? When did you discover it? Would a Generative AI tool have served as a benefit?

Ethical Use

When sharing performance data within an LLM, how can you avoid breaching student privacy standards and laws?

The resource Securing Student Data in the Age of Generative AI, by Anjali Nambiar, 2024, introduces a tool for data privacy in K12 schools. Several points are shared that will support your ability to secure student data when using AI in your classroom.

Choose a lesson plan you have facilitated in the past, or select a sample from a site such as GoOpen Michigan, which is an outstanding resource for lesson plans and activities.

Prompt the LLM of your choice to evaluate those objectives' strengths and suggest alternatives.

Next, use your objective to create prompts to generate an assessment of your choice inside the LLM of your choice.

he EducationWeek article Teacher Collaboration Often Means Analyzing Student Data to Boost Learning. But Does It Work? By Ronald S. Thomas, March 2021.

Why Should I Read This?

As educators face the challenges of effectively utilizing student assessment data, generative AI chatbots can be a powerful tool to enhance data analysis, drive instructional improvement, and foster collaborative discussions among teacher teams. Ronald S. Thomas, an experienced educator and faculty member at Towson University, emphasizes the need for structured protocols and actionable conversations around data to maximize its impact on student learning.

How often do you assess student data?

How often do you share and review data with students? Is it time-consuming? How could AI support your efforts?

Ethical Use

What critical conversations must you have with students to raise awareness of avoiding privacy issues?

As you read the article Why Student Data Remains At Risk- and What Educators are Doing to Protect It, by Kara Arundel, December 2022, ask yourself what safety considerations you can add to what you already do.

The video Critical Data Privacy Issues with AI (1 minutes 6 seconds) by Patents Demystified provides a brief and poignant description of why one must be careful about what they put into GEN AI chatbots

Suggestion 1:

Data on its own is meaningless. It needs to tell a story. Upload student testing data free of student-identifiable information into the LLM of your choice. Create a data story from the data you provide with the assistance of the LLM.

The story should provide readers with insights into future lesson planning and targeting specific learner needs.

What gaps were identified?
Were there results that surprised you?

Suggestion 2:

Use the following questions from the document Guiding Questions for Analyzing Student Data by Lynn Fuchs and Lee Kern to create prompts for conversing with your chosen chatbot and discover how it supports modifying your lesson plans and learning objectives.

What patterns do the data reveal?
What might data reveal about students’ needs?
What adaptations may be needed to make the intervention more effective?
How can this information help you create assessments?

AI Prompting Work Samples

Design and Automate

How can we converse with an LLM to analyze student data from assessments to create a data story and direct your planning for student learning? Use the prompt samples below and the data set in an LLM of your choice to review ways to use the tool to analyze data. Here is an example of how these prompts could look. You are encouraged to use your own personal set of student data and objectives to recreate these prompts.

Free and paid versions of generative AI chat boxes may require different levels of prompting to complete the work.

Prompt Samples:

You are a 5th-grade math teacher. Your class has only ten students. You currently teach lessons focused on three key objectives: mastering basic arithmetic operations, understanding fundamental geometry concepts, and introducing algebraic thinking.
Please act as a 5th-grade math teacher. Your class has only ten students. You currently teach lessons focused on three key objectives: mastering basic arithmetic operations, understanding fundamental geometry concepts, and introducing algebraic thinking. Don't do anything until I prompt you.
You have targeted the following objectives. Objective 1: Mastery of Basic Arithmetic Operations (Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division) Objective 2: Understanding Geometry Concepts (Shapes, Angles, Area, Perimeter) Objective 3: Introduction to Algebraic Thinking (Patterns, Simple Equations, Variables)
I have administered assessments for two testing periods. The first test evaluated students' initial grasp of the material, and the second assessed their improvement and understanding.

Prompt Samples if sample data set and test questions uploaded:

Using all the provided data, answer the following questions: What patterns do the data reveal? What might data reveal about students’ needs? What adaptations may be needed to make the intervention more effective?
Based on the data, create a lesson plan to target learners with the lowest scores and address their areas of struggle. What would a revised set of learning objects be?Create a data story to share with my principal on how students are progressing toward the mastery of objectives over the two testing periods. Create an introductory paragraph to introduce these findings to my principal.

Learning Assessments : Continue identifying the key components of formative assessment and how AI tools can enhance and support them. Prompt Example 2.0 Enhancing Formative Assessment provides the opportunity to analyze a biology courses set of assessment questions for alignment with Next Generation Science Standards(NGSS). This prompt supports content alignment and standards mapping.