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Ulrike Padó; Yunus Eryilmaz; Larissa Kirschner – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2024
Short-Answer Grading (SAG) is a time-consuming task for teachers that automated SAG models have long promised to make easier. However, there are three challenges for their broad-scale adoption: A technical challenge regarding the need for high-quality models, which is exacerbated for languages with fewer resources than English; a usability…
Descriptors: Grading, Automation, Test Format, Computer Assisted Testing
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Wang, Yu; Chiu, Chia-Yi; Köhn, Hans Friedrich – Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics, 2023
The multiple-choice (MC) item format has been widely used in educational assessments across diverse content domains. MC items purportedly allow for collecting richer diagnostic information. The effectiveness and economy of administering MC items may have further contributed to their popularity not just in educational assessment. The MC item format…
Descriptors: Multiple Choice Tests, Nonparametric Statistics, Test Format, Educational Assessment
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Sung, Rou-Jia; Swarat, Su L.; Lo, Stanley M. – Journal of Biological Education, 2022
Exams constitute the predominant form of summative assessment in undergraduate biology education, with the assumption that exam performance should reflect student conceptual understanding. Previous work highlights multiple examples in which students can answer exam problems correctly without the corresponding conceptual understanding. This…
Descriptors: Biology, Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students, Scientific Concepts