Q: I teach history at a public middle school. How can I use AI to help me create quizzes and worksheets students? I currently compose them by hand, but it’s quite time intensive so I end up reusing the same ones year after year.
A: You’re already on the right track when you frame it as AI helping you rather than doing the work for you. As a fellow instructor (I teach at the University of Denver) large language model AI systems like ChatGPT can be quite helpful.
Try to replace a teacher with software, however, and it gets a bit more questionable; who’s supervising how things are proceeding and whether facts and explanations are accurate?
Programs like Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and Perplexity are perfect for quizzes and worksheets. The key is to explain what you want in great detail. If you want to update a Civil War quiz, explain what’s been covered in class, age and reading level of your students, anticipated time and length of your desired quiz, even specific topics or themes to add.
• “Create a 10-question quiz about the American civil war. your target is a student in seventh grade. make the questions short and easily understood. Include a question on the causes, where the key battles were fought, and how it ended.”
Keep in mind that LLMs are able to analyze prompts and suggest improvements too. When I ask ChatGPT (run the latest model for best results) what else I should have specified in my prompt, it responds:
You’ll get better results if your prompt covers four main areas: Audience & Difficulty, Format & Structure, Content Scope & Coverage, and Style & Clarity.
Here’s a better version of your prompt:
• “Create a 10-question quiz for U.S. seventh grade history students, written at a middle school reading level. The quiz should include six multiple choice questions and four short answer questions. Cover at least: (1) one question on the causes of the Civil War, (2) two on key battles and where they were fought, (3) one on how the war ended, and (4) key figures on both sides. Keep questions clear and under 20 words. Provide the answer key at the end, labeled clearly and separate from the questions.”
It’s critical to remember that chatbots are not intended to deliver the best results based on a one or two word prompt. Google search? It can do wonders with a succinct search term, but you’re asking the LLM to create something, not find something. Big difference.
With this in mind, try creating some highly detailed prompts and see what type of results you receive. Ask it to suggest refinements, and don’t forget you can also give it your existing quiz and ask things like “update this with the latest perspective on the causes of the Civil War.”
Once you have something to evaluate, spend the time to fact check every question and answer. Also ask your AI to “verify each fact and cite your sources.” Now, give it a try!
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