A Feedback Generation System to Enhance Learning at Primary School

Feedback is an essential aid for the learning process of students. Unfortunately, with an increase in workloads and student numbers, teachers find it time-consuming and difficult to produce valuable and meaningful feedback for students. To maintain an environment in which students can continue to receive beneficial feedback, a feedback generation system in primary schools in Mauritius has been developed. This system is based on English subject where students can perform exercises in the form of multiple-choice questions and fill-in-the- blank questions where immediate feedback is provided to them after it is requested. Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques has been used to generate feedback to students. The system also provides auto-correction and auto-grading of exercises. The aim of this system is to save teacher's time in providing immediate content-based and meaningful feedback to enhance student learning. The desktop application was tested in some primary schools and positive results were obtained from both instructors and students.