An automatic essay correction for an active learning environment

摘要

In this paper, we describe and test a part of an active learning environment that is being used to engage and empower students' learning in a undergraduate engineering course. We developed a survey system, called Milsa, in order to insert questions and template answers, and to automatically correct the questions based on template answers. In Milsa, the students insert multiple questions and template answers, the questions aleatory distributed to multiple responses. Milsa was used as an assessment in a gamified discipline [1]. After the automatic correction of the questions, the students evaluate the responses. The correction algorithm in Milsa is based on LSA [2], on STASIS [3] and on Michalski's genetic algoritm [4]. The template answer is a tagged text: hyperonymy, hyponymy, meronymy and synonymy are marked. By the end the tests on are showed and evaluated.