Tuesday, 7 April 2009

AUTOMATIC ESSAY ASSESSMENT.


LEARNING DIARY ON
AUTOMATIC ESSAY ASSESSMENT.


The research field was conducted by Mr. Nyambalafu and Miss Rose Mchaka on 6th April 2009. The topic was good and understood well but for the first time it was very difficult to me to understand the meaning of Automatic Essay Assessment, now am feel okey on that.
The meaning of Automatic Essay Assessment.
Refers to the use of an electronic machine to make essay evaluation, where by an electronic machine can determine for example the grade of the students, even the machine can avoid the plagiarism, the machine is able to show if the sentences has plagiarism, analyze learning outcome (make evaluation).


The following are the Advantages or importance of Automatic essay assessment.
These are categoriesed into two parts.
To the teacher:
It saves time in marking process.
It saves time in making evaluation.
It helps to make a final grader.
It helps a teacher to be consistency.
To the students.
It challenges students to think critically.
It provides real feedback to the students.
It looks the qualities of the students work and not comparisons with others.
It supports students to reflect learning process.

Therefore to have an electronic machine of doing such activities it is a good plan because it helps in simplification of work but the problems comes It is very cost full for making program because it need a lot of money to buy the program, It reduce thinking capacity of the teacher for example in steady of doing harder machine help to simplify each and everything,It needs high qualified people on setup


Futures.
To have a machine which can assess each and everything.
To give back the whole essay with all corrections.
To have a machine which can assess hardcopy
essay.