Think Both Ways: Teacher-Student Bidirectional Reasoning Enhances MCQ Generation and Distractor Quality (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods for generating high-quality MCQs struggle with contextual relevance and plausible distractors. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that integrates bidirectional reasoning perspectives to generate contextually relevant questions and plausible distractors while student reasoning evaluates question clarity and the misleading nature of distractors. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods in generating text-grounded questions and high-quality distractors for narrative contexts. |
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