Lecture Question Processing with Similar-Question Merging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing techniques fail to effectively process questions transmitted from students during a lecture, providing inadequate benefits to both students and instructors.
Innovation Solution
A question processing device that receives, processes, and transmits questions from multiple students, incorporating features like question combining, level determination based on peer evaluations, and association with lecture material, to enhance information processing and benefit both students and instructors.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Measurement precision
If questions from multiple students are processed individually, then each question receives detailed attention, but the processing time and system complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple similar questions into a single representative question for processing. The question processing device identifies questions with similar intent or topic from multiple students and merges them, processing the combined question once while notifying all relevant students. This reduces redundant processing while maintaining comprehensive coverage of student inquiries.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary classification and grouping of questions before detailed processing. By pre-organizing questions into categories and identifying similar questions in advance, the system prepares the question set for efficient batch processing, reducing the overall processing time while maintaining quality.
2Loss of information
If all student questions are transmitted to the instructor, then no information is lost, but the information overload reduces the instructor's ability to effectively process and respond to questions
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts and identifies similar questions from the complete set of student questions, selecting representative questions that capture the essence of multiple inquiries. By taking out only the essential unique questions for instructor review while grouping similar ones, the system maintains information completeness while reducing the volume of information the instructor must process.
Solution Approach 2:
Multiple questions with similar content or intent are merged into a single consolidated question entry. The system combines these questions while preserving the original questioners' identities, allowing the instructor to address the underlying issue once while knowing which students have similar concerns.
3Productivity
If similar questions are combined into a single question, then processing efficiency improves, but the individuality of each student's question may be lost
Solution Approach 1:
The system merges similar questions while maintaining a record of which students submitted each question. The combined question entry includes metadata about the original questioners, allowing the instructor to see that multiple students asked similar questions without losing the individual contribution information.
Solution Approach 2:
The system provides feedback to students whose questions are combined into a group, notifying them that their question was similar to others and has been processed as part of a group. This feedback mechanism maintains student engagement and informs them that their individual question was considered in the consolidation process.
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AI summary
A question processing device includes a question receiver that receives, during a lecture provided by an instructor to two or more students, a question about the lecture from each of two or more student terminals, a question processor that performs information processing on two or more questions received by the question receiver and obtains a processing result, and a result transmitter that transmits the processing result obtained by the question processor to an instructor terminal or the two or more student terminals. The question processing device can perform effective information processing on questions transmitted from students during a lecture and provide appropriate benefit to the students or the instructor.