Table 7 Categorisation of problematic distractors (combined)
From: Automatic distractor generation for multiple-choice English vocabulary questions
Problematic distractor | Baseline | Proposed | TOEFL |
|---|---|---|---|
Expert-based | 82 | 38 | 25 |
Test taker-based | 40 | 26 | 24 |
Intersection | 24 | 9 | 5 |
Too similar with the correct answer or the target word | 9 | 1 | 0 |
Different word class | 3 | 2 | 3 |
No relation to the correct answer | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Different word difficulty | 16 | 5 | 1 |
Antonym of the correct answer | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Synonym pair | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Others | 0 | 1 | 1 |