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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

Integrating Competency Modeling with Traditional Job Analysis

Posted: | M. R. Raymond

CLEAR Exam Review 2018 27(2): 21-27

 

The purpose of this paper is to suggest an approach to job analysis that addresses broad competencies while maintaining the rigor of traditional job analysis and the specificity of good test blueprints.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Other