Exploring Pre-scoring Clustering for Short Answer Grading.
MIPRO(2023)
Abstract
Automatic short answer grading is a topic that has gained significant popularity recently, especially due to developments in natural language processing. While automated grading in computer supported assessment tasks traditionally imposed significant restrictions on the answer format (e.g., multiple choice questions), automated short answer grading could enable assessment scalability with very few answer format limitations and thereby increase the assessment tasks’ validity. Here, ‘short answer’ refers to a text of up to, approximately, 10 sentences. However, automatic solutions require a lot of pre-graded material. In this paper, several pre-trained machine learning models were utilized to explore pre-scoring clustering for short answer grading of text in Croatian. The aim of this approach is to shorten the process of manual short answer grading by clustering similar answers, facilitating the development of automatic grading solutions. The described approach was evaluated on a dataset containing graduate students’ answers in Croatian to six questions related to cyber security topics. The obtained results are promising and show how increases in cluster purity, normalized mutual information, Rand index, and adjusted Rand index measures can be achieved by finetuning a pre-trained model.
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Key words
automatic short answer grading,ASAG,semi-automated short answer scoring,short answer grading,short text,short answer,automatic grading,natural language processing
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