Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result

Assessing leaner’s answers is very time consuming for educators and limits them to be involved in other activities. In many cases, exam papers comprise of questions that require learners to write at least one or two sentences toe express their understanding. However, there are not many computer-bas...

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Main Authors: Lajis, Adidah, Abdul Aziz, Normaziah
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2009
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http://irep.iium.edu.my/38035/1/Assessment_of_Learner%27s_Understanding_An_Experimental_Result.pdf
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description Assessing leaner’s answers is very time consuming for educators and limits them to be involved in other activities. In many cases, exam papers comprise of questions that require learners to write at least one or two sentences toe express their understanding. However, there are not many computer-based assessment tools due to limitations in computerized marking technology. Our research attempts to address this limitation by introducing a technique to evaluate short free text answer. It is based on a hybrid approach that combines natural language processing, information extraction and artificial intelligence. A textual answer is converted into a node link representation to extract the hidden knowledge structure. We then apply excess entropy to compute the amount of known information for each model and later compute the score accordingly.
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spelling iium-380352015-01-06T07:22:37Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/38035/ Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result Lajis, Adidah Abdul Aziz, Normaziah T Technology (General) Assessing leaner’s answers is very time consuming for educators and limits them to be involved in other activities. In many cases, exam papers comprise of questions that require learners to write at least one or two sentences toe express their understanding. However, there are not many computer-based assessment tools due to limitations in computerized marking technology. Our research attempts to address this limitation by introducing a technique to evaluate short free text answer. It is based on a hybrid approach that combines natural language processing, information extraction and artificial intelligence. A textual answer is converted into a node link representation to extract the hidden knowledge structure. We then apply excess entropy to compute the amount of known information for each model and later compute the score accordingly. 2009 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/38035/1/Assessment_of_Learner%27s_Understanding_An_Experimental_Result.pdf Lajis, Adidah and Abdul Aziz, Normaziah (2009) Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result. In: 2009 International Conference on Computer Technology and Development, 13th-15 Nov. 2009, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5359687
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Lajis, Adidah
Abdul Aziz, Normaziah
Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result
title Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result
title_full Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result
title_fullStr Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result
title_full_unstemmed Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result
title_short Assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result
title_sort assessment of learner's understanding: an experimental result
topic T Technology (General)
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/38035/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38035/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/38035/1/Assessment_of_Learner%27s_Understanding_An_Experimental_Result.pdf