NDLI: Intelligent mathematics assessment in eMax

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Gyorgy, A. Vajda, I.
Copyright Year	2007
Description	Author affiliation: Budapest Tech, Budapest (Gyorgy, A.; Vajda, I.)
Abstract	The emergence of the knowledge based society evoked a rapid expansion of student numbers enrolled in higher education. With increasing student numbers, however, the time necessary to assess the acquired knowledge in examinations approaches - or, with large student numbers, even exceeds-the time needed to deliver the lectures of a course. At the same time, distance learning systems have an urgent need to provide an integrated knowledge assessment component. These are the main reasons for the appearance of knowledge assessment systems (KAS's) in the 1970's as well as their steadily increasing importance. As shown in our paper, published KAS's do not support the evaluation of either freely formulated short answers or partially solved mathematical problems. However, the eMax KAS, developed at the Intelligent Knowledge Management Innovation Center of IBM Hungary and the John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics at Budapest Tech was conceived to fill this void. The short description of eMax and the method of quasi-automatic assessment of short texts can be found in a companion paper of the present conference. In this article we will demonstrate how eMax is capable of quasi-automatic assessment when answers are only partially correct, using questions of higher mathematics.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	7
File Size	1427940
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424409860
DOI	10.1109/AFRCON.2007.4401512
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2007-09-26
Publisher Place	South Africa
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Mathematics Linear algebra Problem-solving Space exploration Computer aided instruction Knowledge management Technological innovation Informatics Intelligent systems Testing Math Problem Solving Answer Space Electronic Evaluation Intelligent Assessment Systems Knowledge Assessment Systems
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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