Identification and Addressal of Knowledge Gaps in Students

According to a survey study titled the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER), more than half of fifth-grade children in rural schools cannot read a second-grade textbook or answer simple mathematics problems. This figure hints at some fundamental problems plaguing the rural education system. Whether it is the lack of pocket-friendly schools, inadequate structure, or merely the teaching methodology, we have understood the underlying causes and created software that can help students learn more clearly and identify knowledge gaps. It can also be used as a learning tool to address the inadequacies in the current rural education system. Our application uses the available educational content and develops questions to test the students’ understanding of the fundamental concepts presented. Once students attempt to answer these questions, we assess their weaknesses by analysing their answers. Alongside the questions, we have used gamification to improve engagement with the app. We used the BERT Summarizer to extract and summarise the content. We then generate questions and use the Word2vec model to generate distractors. Multiple models were tried out, but the best results were achieved using the BERT summariser in conjunction with the Word2vec model. Metrics used to compute the results were answerability and BERT scores.