Student-Generated Questions from Tuscan Geography Education Experiment

Student-generated questions and solutions collected during an inquiry-based learning experiment in an upper-secondary school in Tuscany, Italy. The dataset also includes a post-intervention student questionnaire. It was created by Lorenzo Angiolelli and published on figshare in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze the linguistic complexity and thematic content of student-generated questions (SGQs) to assess learning outcomes.
• Train a text classification model to categorize student solutions based on keywords or concepts present in the response text.
• Correlate questionnaire responses (e.g., student attitudes) with the quality or quantity of SGQs produced.
• Use the question and solution pairs as a corpus for training or fine-tuning language models for educational applications in geography.

Strengths

• Includes multiple data types: structured questionnaire responses and unstructured text from student questions and solutions.
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license, allowing for broad reuse and sharing.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 80.6 KB, indicating a limited sample size likely from a single classroom.
• Geographic scope is limited to one school in Tuscany, Italy, which may limit generalizability of findings.

Provenance

Source

Lorenzo Angiolelli, via figshare.

Collection Method

Collected during an experimental teaching intervention grounded in an inquiry-based learning approach.

Freshness

Data reflects an experiment conducted prior to its April 2026 publication date; specific collection date is unknown.

Geography

An upper-secondary school in Tuscany, Italy.