Open AccessINFOLOGICAL TECHNOLOGIES USED IN AUTOMATED TESTING OF STUDENTS KNOWLEDGE
Author(s) -
Sergey N. Mikhailov,
V. U. Demyanenko
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
izvestiâ ûgo-zapadnogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2686-6757
pISSN - 2223-1560
DOI - 10.21869/2223-1560-2017-21-3-75-83
Subject(s) - correctness , computer science , objectivity (philosophy) , control (management) , test (biology) , multiple choice , similarity (geometry) , natural language processing , information retrieval , artificial intelligence , linguistics , epistemology , algorithm , paleontology , philosophy , reading (process) , image (mathematics) , biology
Main functions and characteristics of students’ knowledge testing are described in the article. Choice of one or several correct answers from offered answers is basis of such testing. It is noted that this testing doesn't fully estimate students’ ability to state logically their thoughts, to form valid conclusions, to make other creative actions. This testing can't be fully objective control of knowledge. It is offered to test students in the form of essay in native language. It is done to increase knowledge control objectivity and to use infological approach for correctness assessment. This approach shows semantic contents revealing and degree of reference anthology. It is possible to do on the basis of automated accounting of contacts between words and/or phrases in the text. Assessment algorithm of students’ answers is offered. The assessment shows terminological and semantic similarity coefficients of students’ answer. Dictionary entry or other text materials (lecture) can be used as corpus. Results of pilot study are given (66 responses on studied disciplines). Disciplines are "Networks and mobile telecommunication systems", "Information theory bases", "Networks and cellular systems". Mathematical processing of results shows low correlative coupling between an assessment of student´s response by the teacher and indices of terminological and semantic compliance. This is explained by existence of grammatical errors and brevity of students’ responses. Main directions of further theoretical and experimental researches using infological technologies implementation when testing students’ knowledge are defined.