Automatic assessment of constructed response data in a chemistry tutor

Scott Crossley, Kristopher Kyle, Jodi Davenport, Danielle S. McNamara

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Abstract

This study introduces the Constructed Response Analysis Tool (CRAT), a freely available tool to automatically assess student responses in online tutoring systems. The study tests CRAT on a dataset of chemistry responses collected in the ChemVLab+. The findings indicate that CRAT can differentiate and classify student responses based on semantic overlap with student input and indices related to word frequency, text content, and lexical sophistication. Overall, the findings suggest that more accurate student responses show greater overlap with the content learned, include more academic function words, contain greater content that is descriptive, and includes more specific and familiar words.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages336-340
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 2016
Event9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2016 - Raleigh, United States
Duration: Jun 29 2016Jul 2 2016

Conference

Conference9th International Conference on Educational Data Mining, EDM 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityRaleigh
Period6/29/167/2/16

Keywords

  • Constructed response scoring
  • Natural language processing
  • On-line tutors

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science Applications
  • Information Systems

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