Research Works Item Code: 9013f60e76
Innovation: The automated system, if adopted will ease the problems of contracting out scripts to markers, and other extreneous factors.
Sector/Industry Application: Education
Description: Due to irregularities in marking theory examination papers which makes graders or markers to assign different scores to students paper, even when the paper have same answers, and other extraneous factors, like halo effect and mood of the grader. This necessitated the development of an automated system that will mark theory questions without human interference. The system was designed that students write exam, the system mark and score immediately and the student get result immediately after submission.
Problem: To solve the problem of not getting the correct score but eliminating bias while marking student theory examination scripts.