Automated Formative Assessment for Descriptive Solutions

Formative assessments are an essential part of any student's evaluation criteria. It assesses the student holistically and helps students monitor their learning progress. It allows students to identify the gaps between their current knowledge and the skills they wish to acquire. These assessments have the scope to be automated, and such advancement will inevitably improve the efficiency and accuracy of the evaluation process. Currently, some systems use a scoring guide and semantic meaning extractors to achieve this. There is a need for a solution that can analyze the answers written by students to help the instructor provide quality feedback. The proposed solution aims to help teachers and students by evaluating the students' responses and questions that the teacher will pre-set. This system will give relevant feedback to the student's explanatory answers. This feedback contains suitable keywords suggestions, the accuracy of the solution, peer comparison, and overall performance in the test. This test can be taken as often as required until the student achieves desirable performance, enabling relevant feedback. The test iterations can be as often as the teacher desires until the student reaches the desired performance. The experimental design was used to analyze the performance of the students. The results indicate significant improvements in the subsequent tests, including the feedback suggestion to the students.