EvalQuiz - LLM-based Automated Generation of Self-Assessment Quizzes in Software Engineering Education

Self-assessment quizzes after lectures, educational videos, or chapters are a commonly used method in software engineering (SE) education to give students the opportunity to test their gained knowledge. However, the creation of these quizzes is time-consuming, cognitively exhausting, and complex, as an expert in the field needs to create the quizzes and review the lecture material for validity. Therefore, this paper presents a concept to automatically generate self-assessment quizzes based on lecture material using a large language model (LLM) to reduce lecturers' workload and simplify the general quiz creation process. The developed prototype was handed to experts, who subsequently evaluated the approach. The results show that automatic quiz generation saves time and the quizzes cover the delivered lecture material well. However, the generated quizzes often lack originality and versatility. Therefore, further prompt engineering might be required to achieve more elaborate results.