Bridging gaps in computerised assessment of texts

Author

Callear, David ; Jerrams-Smith, Jennifer ; Victor, Stephane

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Syst., Portsmouth Univ., UK

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

139

Lastpage

140

Abstract

A survey of major systems for the automated assessment of free-text answers is presented. This includes the Project Essay Grade (PEG), the Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA), which employs latent semantic analysis (LSA), and the Electronic Essay Rater (E-Rater). All these systems have the same weakness in that they are unable to perform any assessment of text content. The word order is also not taken into account. In an effort to bridge the gaps in knowledge about this research problem, an introduction to a novel automated text marker (ATM) prototype is given in this paper

Keywords

educational administrative data processing; text analysis; E-Rater; Electronic Essay Rater; Intelligent Essay Assessor; Project Essay Grade; automated assessment; automated text marker; computerised text assessment; free-text answers; latent semantic analysis; prototype system; survey; text content; word order; Accuracy; Bridges; Electronic equipment testing; Humans; Indexing; Natural language processing; Prototypes; System testing; USA Councils; Writing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2001. Proceedings. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Madison, WI

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1013-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2001.943881

Filename

943881