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The problem of labels in e-assessment of diagrams

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Jayal, Ambikesh
Shepperd, Martin
Date
2009-01
Acceptance date
2008-06
Type
Article
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
ISSN
1531-4278
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Abstract
In this article we explore a problematic aspect of automated assessment of diagrams. Diagrams have partial and sometimes inconsistent semantics. Typically much of the meaning of a diagram resides in the labels; however, the choice of labeling is largely unrestricted. This means a correct solution may utilize differing yet semantically equivalent labels to the specimen solution. With human marking this problem can be easily overcome. Unfortunately with e-assessment this is challenging. We empirically explore the scale of the problem of synonyms by analyzing 160 student solutions to a UML task. From this we find that cumulative growth of synonyms only shows a limited tendency to reduce at the margin despite using a range of text processing algorithms such as stemming and auto-correction of spelling errors. This finding has significant implications for the ease in which we may develop future e-assessment systems of diagrams, in that the need for better algorithms for assessing label semantic similarity becomes inescapable.
Journal/conference proceeding
Journal of Educational Resources in Computing;
Citation
Jayal, A. and Shepperd, M. (2009) 'The problem of labels in E-assessment of diagrams', Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), 8(4), p.12. DOI: 10.1145/1482348.1482351.
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10369/10367
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1145/1482348.1482351
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Article published in Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC) in January 2009, available at: https://doi.org/10.1145/1482348.1482351.
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