Automated grading system for essays
Tasneem Hatem
November 2022
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Motivation
Essays play an important role in education, assess the learning outcomes, increase the recalling ability, and doing research. According to Philip Richardson, an English teacher at Dean Close St John’s schools, essays help high
school students in broadening their minds, quiring skills for the job market,
learning to better express oneself, and learning and acquiring knowledge.
Adding to that, essays are essential for assessments as teachers can determine
whether or not the student has digested the material. This is because writing
helps them integrating their ideas in an organized way. And hence graders
can identify the level of how much they have understood from their material.
Accordingly, graders can identify the learning ability for each student. Not
only that essays are important tool for students but for researchers, too. It
helps them in publishing their ideas, and in gathering the one community of
a field on one topic. It has to be organized, consistent, to the point, and full
of ideas. And this makes graders, by nature, somehow subjective and may
be biased in some cases. However, essays in some cases might have draw
backs. It takes time in grading as it must be read all effectively. Moreover,
there might be some subjective and biases in grading. Many researches claim
that this is a human nature that is in many cases out of the graders’ hand.
However, students don’t recognize this. Some of them comply of unfairness
and unequal. So my motive is that if the automated grading system is implemented effectively, students who need more explanation to increase their
curve and their ability to learn will be targeted. Furthermore, time consumed
in grading will be exploited in something more useful, and all students will
be graded equally with consistency in grading.
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Problem Definition
There are existing datasets like Essay Set Descriptions.zip on kagel. One of
the common problems encountered in automated grading systems for essays is
not finding pillars on which we can measure human marks. This is because
grading essays depends on the perception of the grader and his intellect.
Another two problems are that there are no rules for determining the best
texts, and there is a lack of data collection.
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Objectives
As mentioned in the motivation (section 1) it is a human nature to be subjective. So, the objective is to create an Automated grading system for essays
that is fair, human like grading, and accurate. Plus, it is important that this
system saves time for graders.
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References
1) Hari Prasad, P. v., et al. “Automated essay grading system using deep
learning.” International Research Journal of Engineering and Technology
(IRJET), vol. 07, no. 03, Mar. 2020, pp. 952–954.
2) Ramalingam, V. V., et al. ”Automated essay grading using machine learning algorithm.” Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Vol. 1000. No. 1.
IOP Publishing, 2018.
DOI: V. V. Ramalingam et al 2018 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 1000 012030
3) Ramesh, Dadi, and Suresh Kumar Sanampudi. ”An automated essay scoring systems: a systematic literature review.” Artificial Intelligence Review
(2021): 1-33.
DOI: 10.1007/s10462-021-10068-2
4) Ramesh, Dadi, and Suresh Kumar Sanampudi. ”An automated essay scoring systems: a systematic literature review.” Artificial Intelligence Review
(2021): 1-33.
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