Table 6 Categorisation of problematic distractors by human expert
From: Automatic distractor generation for multiple-choice English vocabulary questions
| Â | Baseline | Proposed | TOEFL |
|---|---|---|---|
Too similar with the correct answer or the target word | 26 | 3 | 1 |
Different word class | 12 | 10 | 10 |
No relation to the correct answer | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Different word difficulty | 34 | 22 | 11 |
Antonym of the correct answer | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Synonym pair | 10 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 0 | 3 | 2 |
Total problematic distractors | 71 | 39 | 25 |