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ACTA: Short-Answer Grading in High-Stakes Medical Exams

Posted: | King Yiu Suen, Victoria Yaneva, Le An Ha, Janet Mee, Yiyun Zhou, Polina Harik

Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023), Pages 443-447

 

This paper presents the ACTA system, which performs automated short-answer grading in the domain of high-stakes medical exams. The system builds upon previous work on neural similarity-based grading approaches by applying these to the medical domain and utilizing contrastive learning as a means to optimize the similarity metric. 

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Scoring, General Measurement

Diagnosing Diagnostic Models: From Von Neumann’s Elephant to Model Equivalencies and Network Psychometrics

Posted: | M. von Davier

Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives, 16:1, 59-70

 

This article critically reviews how diagnostic models have been conceptualized and how they compare to other approaches used in educational measurement. In particular, certain assumptions that have been taken for granted and used as defining characteristics of diagnostic models are reviewed and it is questioned whether these assumptions are the reason why these models have not had the success in operational analyses and large-scale applications, contrary to what many have hoped.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, General Measurement