Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays
This paper discusses the idea of automatic computer marking of assignments and linking learners and teachers to virtually immediately available interactive visualizations of the assessment results. MarkIT is an Automatic Essay Grading System being developed by the authors, and for which they have a...
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| description | This paper discusses the idea of automatic computer marking of assignments and linking learners and teachers to virtually immediately available interactive visualizations of the assessment results. MarkIT is an Automatic Essay Grading System being developed by the authors, and for which they have a provisional patent application filed. It makes use of proprietary algorithms using Natural Language Processing techniques. At its heart is an English language thesaurus used under license from Macquarie Dictionary Pty Ltd. MarkIT provides, in addition to a numerical essay score, comprehensive visual and textual feedback on essay content to enable the teacher to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the essay, and areas for improvement with the student within a very short time of the essay being submitted for assessment. An example of MarkIT system functionality and performance is presented. Further system development possibilities are presented to permit upload, grading and interactive feedback provision via the Web or wireless networks. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-192672017-02-27T15:15:07Z Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays Williams, Robert Dreher, Heinz Automatic Essay Grading MarkIT grading telecommunications feedback visualization feedback interaction assignment assessment NLP comprehension Natural Language Processing This paper discusses the idea of automatic computer marking of assignments and linking learners and teachers to virtually immediately available interactive visualizations of the assessment results. MarkIT is an Automatic Essay Grading System being developed by the authors, and for which they have a provisional patent application filed. It makes use of proprietary algorithms using Natural Language Processing techniques. At its heart is an English language thesaurus used under license from Macquarie Dictionary Pty Ltd. MarkIT provides, in addition to a numerical essay score, comprehensive visual and textual feedback on essay content to enable the teacher to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the essay, and areas for improvement with the student within a very short time of the essay being submitted for assessment. An example of MarkIT system functionality and performance is presented. Further system development possibilities are presented to permit upload, grading and interactive feedback provision via the Web or wireless networks. 2005 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19267 Communication Economics and Electronic Markets Research Centre fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Automatic Essay Grading MarkIT grading telecommunications feedback visualization feedback interaction assignment assessment NLP comprehension Natural Language Processing Williams, Robert Dreher, Heinz Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays |
| title | Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays |
| title_full | Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays |
| title_fullStr | Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays |
| title_full_unstemmed | Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays |
| title_short | Telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays |
| title_sort | telecommunications use in education to provide interactive visual feedback on automatically graded essays |
| topic | Automatic Essay Grading MarkIT grading telecommunications feedback visualization feedback interaction assignment assessment NLP comprehension Natural Language Processing |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19267 |