The Importance Of Objective Assessment

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Abstract:
It is important for students to expertize in their field, since there is an agile change in all the domains. Even though resources are available to learn, proper assessment helps them improve upon their knowledge and there is no platform or enough experts to access their knowledge. In this paper, we propose an automatic generation of multiple choice questions on any user defined domain. It first extracts text from the given domain and summarizes with preference learning. The distractors are generated using similarity metrics such as hypernyms and hyponyms. The system also generates analogy questions targeting primary school level.
Keywords: preference learning; natural language processing; summarizer; e-assessment; MCQ; analogy; …show more content…

Objective
2. Subjective
Objective assessment is a form of questioning which has a single correct answer. Subjective assessment is a form of questioning which may have more than one way of expressing the correct answer. Objective question types include true/false answers, multiple choice, and multiple-response and matching questions. Subjective questions include extended-response questions and essays. Objective assessment is well suited to the increasingly popular computerized or online assessment format. In this paper, we concentrate on objective questions.
Multiple choice questions are a form of assessment in which respondents are asked to select the best possible answer (or answers) out of the choices from a list. In many disciplines instructors use MCQs as a preferred assessment tool and it is estimated that 45% - 67% student assessments utilise MCQs [4]. The fast developments of e-Learning technologies have in turn stimulated method for automatic generation of MCQs and today they have become an actively developing topic in application-oriented NLP …show more content…

We use preference learning to identify the stem. Next, we have to choose the distractors such that (1) it is relevant to the objective (2) there is no synonym to the key. Relevant to the objective means it should be related to the context in the perspective of domain and should have a similar parts of speech structure. For example, if the key is a verb then the distracters must also be a verb for it to appear similar to the key. If the distractor is a synonym to the key, then there will be more than one answer, which should not be the case.
In this paper we generate two types of MCQs:
1. Fill in the blank type
2. Analogy type
Fill in the blank is a type of question or phrase with one or more words replaced with a blank, giving the reader the chance to add the missing word(s).
Verbal analogy questions are of the form of comparison between two objects. “A car has wheel is like a book has page” is an example of an analogy. Analogy questions will be of MCQ type having a stem and a set of options.
Relate works:
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In all the existing works, we come across two main problems:
Uses static corpus i.e., the dataset is defined earlier from which the MCQs are generated. This poses a limitation in choice of the

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