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ERIC Number: ED630842
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 8
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Auto-Scoring Student Responses with Images in Mathematics
Baral, Sami; Botelho, Anthony; Santhanam, Abhishek; Gurung, Ashish; Cheng, Li; Heffernan, Neil
International Educational Data Mining Society, Paper presented at the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM) (16th, Bengaluru, India, Jul 11-14, 2023)
Teachers often rely on the use of a range of open-ended problems to assess students' understanding of mathematical concepts. Beyond traditional conceptions of student open-ended work, commonly in the form of textual short-answer or essay responses, the use of figures, tables, number lines, graphs, and pictographs are other examples of open-ended work common in mathematics. While recent developments in areas of natural language processing and machine learning have led to automated methods to score student open-ended work, these methods have largely been limited to textual answers. Several computer-based learning systems allow students to take pictures of hand-written work and include such images within their answers to open-ended questions. With that, however, there are few-to-no existing solutions that support the auto-scoring of student hand-written or drawn answers to questions. In this work, we build upon an existing method for auto-scoring textual student answers and explore the use of OpenAI/CLIP, a deep learning embedding method designed to represent both images and text, as well as Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to improve model performance. We evaluate the performance of our method on a dataset of student open-responses that contains both text- and image-based responses, and find a reduction of model error in the presence of images when controlling for other answer-level features. [For the complete proceedings, see ED630829.]
International Educational Data Mining Society. e-mail: admin@educationaldatamining.org; Web site: https://educationaldatamining.org/conferences/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF); National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings (DRL); Institute of Education Sciences (ED); Office of Postsecondary Education (ED)
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IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1917808; 1931523; 1940236; 1917713; 1903304; 1822830; 1759229; 1724889; 1636782; 1535428; 1440753; 1316736; 1252297; 1109483; DRL1031398; R305A170137; R305A170243; R305A180401; R305A120125; R305C100024; P200A180088; P200A150306; R305A170641
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