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VitalSource Supplemental Data Repository

This repository contains supporting datasets and analysis code for several of our papers where we evaluate the use of automatic question generation as a way to add formative practice to electronic textbooks at a large scale. To date, millions of automatically generated questions have been added to thousands of textbooks in the VitalSource Bookshelf ereader platform and are available to millions of students as a free study feature called CoachMe. CoachMe is based on the Doer Effect, the learning science principle that students who do practice as they read have better learning outcomes than those who only read. All of our published research papers can be found on our research site.

The datasets available are:

Directory Paper
l@s-2021 Toward effective courseware at scale: Investigating automatically generated questions as formative practice
aied-2021-itextbooks Transforming textbooks into learning by doing environments: An evaluation of textbook-based automatic question generation
l@s-2022 Discrimination of automatically generated questions used as formative practice
ijaied-2024 Automatic question generation for Spanish textbooks: Evaluating Spanish questions generated with the parallel construction method
ife-2024 An expert evaluation of formative practice generated for Spanish textbooks using Artificial Intelligence
aied-2024-evallac Exploring large language models for evaluating automatically generated questions
edm-2024 Investigating student ratings with features of automatically generated questions: A large-scale analysis using data from natural learning contexts
jedm-2025 Intrinsic and contextual factors impacting student ratings of automatically generated questions: A large-scale data analysis

Unless otherwise noted, our datasets are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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