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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

Assessment of Clinical Skills: A Case Study in Constructing an NLP-based Scoring System for Patient Notes

Posted: | Polina Harik, Janet Mee, Christopher Runyon, Brian E. Clauser

Advancing Natural Language Processing in Educational Assessment: Pages 58-73

 

This chapter describes INCITE, an NLP-based system for scoring free-text responses. It emphasizes the importance of context and the system’s intended use and explains how each component of the system contributed to its accuracy.

Category:Assessment-Oriented Research, Applications of Technology, Scoring