Lecciones aprendidas promoviendo la generación sistemática de preguntas de calidad por los estudiantes

Resumen

The generation of questions by students, specifically test questions, is the basis of a learning method, proposed and used by different authors, that provides significant improvements in academic results. The basic idea is to ask students to write questions, together with the corresponding answers, from various pieces of the material. The questions are then shared with the whole class. As with any student-generated content, the questions can be peer reviewed to reflect on their interest, to assess their quality, their difficulty or to provide feedback to improve them. However, this general idea allows multiple implementations. It is not very clear which orientations will give the best academic results and how they can affect student satisfaction. In this article, we present a set of lessons learned during our experience from various academic courses using these methods. We have also gathered some valuable data on the number of questions generated, how many of them are of sufficient quality, and the level of satisfaction declared by students.