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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

The Cogent3 Study: Examining Gender’s Impact on Education and Cognition Trends in Three American Generations

Posted: | Shana Stites, Hannah Cao, Jeanine Gill, Kristin Harkins, Jonathan Rubright, Jason Flatt

Innovation in Aging, Volume 4, Issue Supplement_1, 2020, Pages 696-697

 

This presentation describes the framework informing our approach and present results from analyses of gender effects in The Health and Retirement Study that examine gender differences in the associations observed between education and cognitive measures in older adults.

Category:Health Professions