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ERIC Number: EJ1373122
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2022
Pages: 30
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EISSN: EISSN-2157-2100
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Automated Feedback Generation for Student Project Reports: A Data-Driven Approach
Jia, Qinjin; Young, Mitchell; Xiao, Yunkai; Cui, Jialin; Liu, Chengyuan; Rashid, Parvez; Gehringer, Edward
Journal of Educational Data Mining, v14 n3 p132-161 2022
Instant feedback plays a vital role in promoting academic achievement and student success. In practice, however, delivering timely feedback to students can be challenging for instructors for a variety of reasons (e.g., limited teaching resources). In many cases, feedback arrives too late for learners to act on the advice and reinforce their understanding. To this end, researchers have designed various automated feedback systems in different domains, including novice programming, short-essay writing, and open-ended questions. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study has investigated automated feedback generation for a more complex form of student work - student project reports. In this work, we present a novel data-driven system, dubbed "Insta-Reviewer," for automatically generating instant feedback on student project reports. In addition to automatic metrics such as ROUGE scores and BERTScore, we propose a five-dimension framework for manually evaluating system-generated feedback. Experimental results show that feedback generated by Insta-Reviewer on real students' project reports can achieve near-human quality. Our work demonstrates the feasibility of automatic feedback generation for students' project reports while highlighting several prominent challenges for future research
International Educational Data Mining. e-mail: jedm.editor@gmail.com; Web site: https://jedm.educationaldatamining.org/index.php/JEDM
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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