JP5877662B2 - Test answer sheet preparation method, test scoring support method, and computer software used in the method - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention makes it possible to automatically create an answer sheet for a test question and an answer sheet in which an answer has been written in a state in which there are a mixture of questions in the form of answering using a mark sheet method. In addition, the present invention relates to a test answer sheet creation method, a test scoring support method, and computer software used in the method, which can perform scoring of the test efficiently and with high accuracy.

  2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, an automatic scoring system that uses computer software to create a mark sheet answer sheet or automatically score a written answer is known (see, for example, Patent Document 1). Further, an automatic scoring system that can automatically perform more appropriate scoring with respect to a descriptive answer using language analysis means is known (for example, see Patent Document 2).

JP 2007-233888 A JP 2001-56634 A

Conventionally, when an automatic scoring method using a computer is adopted, a method in which a question in a mark sheet format and a problem in a description format are created separately, and an answer is created for each question of a different format. For this reason, there is a problem in that it is not possible to efficiently create and score the answer sheet and the answer sheet containing the model answer regarding the test questions in which the description format and the mark sheet format are mixed. In addition, there was a tendency for the written problem to vary in scoring even with the same answer by the scoring teacher.
The present invention aims to solve the above problems.

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention relates to a test answer sheet creation method for creating an answer sheet for a test question in a state where a question is described as a form of answering in a mark sheet method and a problem of a form of answering is mixed. The correct answer data is described on the computer, and the correct answer data is appended with a format discrimination character indicating whether the correct answer data corresponds to the mark sheet format problem or the correct answer data. Then, the correct answer data to which the attribute is given by the format discrimination character is read by the computer, and the answer sheet data in which the answer column in the mark sheet format and the answer column in the description format are mixed based on the read correct answer data is automatically sent to the computer. It is characteristically generated and stored in a computer.
Further, the present invention automatically generates answer-completed answer sheet data containing an exemplary answer in an answer field in which a mark sheet format answer field and a description format answer field are mixed based on the correct answer data. It is characterized in that it is stored in.
Further, the present invention is computer software for creating an answer sheet for a test question in a state in which a question is described as a format for answering in a mark sheet system and a question in a format for answering.
Computer
A document creation means for creating correct answer data including format discrimination characters for giving an attribute of mark sheet format or description format;
A format discrimination means for reading the format discrimination character in the correct answer data and recognizing the character as specifying a mark sheet format or a description format;
Based on the correct answer data, the answer sheet generating unit automatically functions to generate answer sheet data in which a mark sheet format answer field and a description format answer field are mixed.
In addition, the present invention provides a test scoring support method for supporting scoring of test questions in a state where a question sheet is described as a form of answering in a mark sheet system and a form of answering is mixed, and correct answer data is described on a computer. In the correct answer data, a format discriminating character indicating whether the answer data is correct data corresponding to a mark sheet format question or a correct answer question is added, and an attribute is given by the format discriminating character. The correct answer data is read by a computer, and based on the read data, an answer sheet in which an answer field in the form of a mark sheet and an answer field in a description format are mixed, and an answer entry in which correct answer data is entered as an example answer in these answer fields The data of the completed answer sheet is automatically generated on the computer, and when the scoring is performed, the answer sheet filled in by the respondent is read, and the description formula is taken. In, characterized in that so as to display in parallel the descriptive model answer and solvers answer scoring screen of the computer.
In the present invention, the format identification character corresponds to a control signal linked to each answer column generation program in a mark sheet format and a description format. When the computer reads the format discrimination character, an answer column generation linked to the control signal is generated. The answer sheet data is generated in a computer by a program.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that the size of the answer column in the description format is automatically adjusted according to the number of characters of the corresponding correct answer data.
Further, the present invention can add a keyword to the correct answer data in the description format, display the keyword on the scoring screen, and weight the scoring based on the presence or absence of the keyword in the answer of the answerer. It is characterized by doing so.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that a scoring value is appended to the correct answer data in the description format, and the scoring value is displayed on the scoring screen.
Further, the present invention is characterized in that a plurality of the computers are prepared and connected to each other via a network so that each computer can perform the above-described processing concerning the test questions.
Further, the present invention is a computer software for supporting scoring of a test problem in a state in which a problem of a form in which an answer is described by a mark sheet method is described,
Computer
A document creation means for creating correct answer data including format discrimination characters for giving an attribute of mark sheet format or description format;
A format discrimination means for reading the format discrimination character in the correct answer data and recognizing the character as specifying a mark sheet format or a description format;
Based on the correct answer data, answer sheet generating means for automatically generating answer sheet data in which a model sheet answer field and a description answer field are mixed and answer answer data in which an answer is entered in the answer field ,
It is characterized by functioning as an answer parallel display means for displaying an example answer of the description formula and the answer of the read answerer in parallel on the scoring screen in the description format.

  In the present invention, at the time of creating a question, it is possible to mix the form of answering in a mark sheet method and the form of answering by describing, and automatically creating an answer sheet and a model answer sheet based on the created question sentence Can do. Also, by adopting weighting by keywords at the time of scoring, it is possible to prevent scoring variations. In addition, since the model answer data and the answer by the examinee are displayed side by side, highly accurate and efficient scoring is possible. Further, since the mark sheet format and the description format are individually specified, it is possible to arbitrarily set the arrangement order of the answers in the mark sheet format and the description format.

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Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.
7 and 8 show a schematic configuration of hardware of a test answer sheet creation and scoring support system having a computer as a component. FIG. 8 shows the form of a system in which an optical mark reading device (OMR) 8 and a printer 6 are directly connected to the computer 2. The computer 2 is installed with a description format mixed mark sheet automatic creation program and a test scoring support program (hereinafter abbreviated as a program) for operating this system, and external devices such as a printer 6 and an optical mark reader (OMR) 8 are installed. Connected.

FIG. 7 shows the form of a system in which the computer 2, the file server 10, etc. are connected via a network or the like. In the network system, the server 10 includes a description format mixed mark sheet automatic creation program for operating this system, and A test scoring support program (hereinafter abbreviated as a program) is installed, and external devices such as an optical mark reader (OMR) 8 and a printer 6 are connected to the network 4. Each computer 2 used in this system is connected to a network 4 managed by appropriate groupware. In a system in which a plurality of computers 2 having a description format mixed mark sheet automatic creation function and a test scoring support function are connected by a network 4, problem creation, answer creation, and scoring work can be processed for each computer 2. It has become. Data processed by each computer 2 is configured to be stored in the file server 10.

FIG. 1 is a functional block explanatory diagram of a description format mixed mark sheet automatic creation process and a scoring support process. In FIG. 1, a process S <b> 1 indicates a problem creation and answer creation process using the computer 2. A user of the computer 2, such as a teacher, operates the document creation software installed in the computer 2, and the problem text in which a descriptive expression and a selection expression (answer by the mark sheet method) are mixed as shown in FIGS. 12, 14 and correct answer data 16, 18 are created in an arbitrary format such as text format or PDF format. The question texts 12 and 14 and the correct answer data 16 and 18 may be created using the format provided from the beginning in the program.

The correct answer data 16 and 18 include a description 20 for specifying the number of the question in the question texts 12 and 14, and a format display character linked to a control symbol for causing the computer to recognize whether the question is a description format problem or a mark sheet format problem. 22 and 24 are written, and the correct answer 26 and 27, the model answer sentence 28, the scoring, the keyword 30 that gives weight to the scoring, etc. are entered respectively. The format display character 22 is described by being surrounded by “”, and is configured to make the program recognize that the character in “” is linked to a special symbol. The format display characters 22 and 24 may be anything such as numbers, symbols, and symbols as long as they can be recognized by a computer. However, in the embodiment, a plurality of characters are used for easy understanding.

The program reads the question texts 12 and 14 and the correct answer data 16 and 18 into the memory of the computer 2 (processing S2), and stores these data (processing S3). In the computer 2, each form of an answer sheet 32 with an empty answer column, an answer sheet 34 with an answer, and a question sheet 36 is set in advance by a program. Based on the read question texts 12 and 14 and correct answer data 16 and 18, the program uses the form to create data for the question sheet 36 and answer sheets 32 and 34.

The text data of the question texts 12 and 14 are copied as they are to the question paper form, and the print data of the question paper 36 is generated. Also, the data for printing the answer sheet 32 in the answer column blank is generated according to a predetermined procedure by the program reading the correct answer data 16 and 18 and processing them. When the program detects the description of “question 1” in the correct answer data 16, the program sets the title display section 38 to “1” and identifies the problem. Next, when “description” is detected, a description format answer column 40 is generated. Next, the description ““ (20) ”is the answer to (1)” in the correct answer data 16 is read, the amount of characters “20” is judged, and the size of the description format answer column 40 in the row direction is determined.

Enter “1” on the answer column 40, and write “A” on the answer column 40 based on the description (not shown) of “A” in the correct answer data 16, The answer column 40 is specified for the corresponding question.
Next, when ““ description ”” 22 in the correct answer data 16 is detected, a description format answer field 42 is generated after the description format answer field 40, and then “(1) answer in the correct answer data 16 is The description of “three” is read, the amount of characters in this description is judged, the size of the description format answer column 42 is determined, and further, based on the description (not shown) of “a” in the correct answer data 16, "I" is entered above the answer column 42, and the answer column 42 is specified as one (I) of question 1.

Next, when the program detects “selection of four marks”, it generates a selection format answer field 44 on the adjacent line on the left side of the description format answer fields 40 and 42, and above this selection format answer field 44, Based on the description “The answer to (2) is” in the correct answer data 16, the question number “2” is entered to identify the problem. In addition, the characters 1, 2, 3, 4 to be entered in the selection format answer field 44 and the circles attached to each read the description (not shown) in the correct answer data 16 and arrange them according to a predetermined form. An answer column 44 is generated. In addition, four circles that detect the four choices of “mark four choices” and fill in the selection format answer field 44 are generated. (1), (1), (3), and (4) may be added.

Next, when “description” 22 is detected in the correct answer data 18, the program generates a description answer field 46 corresponding to the character amount of the model answer sentence 28 on the left side of the selection format answer field 44. The characters 48 and 50 beside the written answer column 46 are filled in based on the description (not shown) in the correct answer data 18. The characters 48 and 50 may be input by a user from a keyboard. In the model answer sheet 34, the correct answer data 16 and 18 are automatically inserted into the description format answer fields 40 and 42, and the selection format answer field 44 is also automatically entered based on the description in the correct answer data 16. A black circle is added. In addition, data is automatically inserted into the descriptive answer column 46 based on the description of the correct answer data 18. The question sheet 36, the blank answer sheet 32, and the answer sheet 34 with answers may be edited so that a user can arbitrarily insert characters and the like. In this case, the blank answer sheet 32 can be edited in a restricted state so that the position information in the answer field cannot be changed.

The data of the created answer sheets 32 and 34 is printed out from the printer 6 by the computer 2 (processes S4 and S5), and the printed answer sheet 32 is used for the test. The program is provided with an automatic position recognition function of a selection type answer field 44 and a description format answer field 46, holds position information of the selection type answer field and the description question answer field when creating an answer sheet, and OMR of the answer sheet at the time of scoring This position is automatically determined when reading an image.

Also, the start position information (x1, y1) and end position (x2, y2) of the answer columns 40, 42, 44, 46, and the sheet origin position are absorbed by the computer in order to absorb the reading error of the answer sheet 32. In the memory. When the test is performed and the answer is entered on the answer sheet 32 by the student (process S6), the process proceeds to a scoring process. The completed answer sheet 32 is read into the computer 2 by the OMR 8 (processing S7).

When the computer 2 is set to the selective scoring mode, the computer 2 reads the selective scoring data (correct answer) 27 in the correct answer data 16 (process 8), and the OMR read data in the selection column of the completed answer sheet. And the correctness / incorrectness is automatically determined based on the position information specified in the selected answer sheet painted black and the position information of the selection-type scoring data (correct answer) stored in the computer (processing S9). ), Answer data, correct answer data, and scoring data are displayed on the screen (step S10).

When scoring the description format, the computer 2 is set to the description format scoring mode. In this mode, as shown in FIG. 6, the computer calls the description format scoring data, that is, the model answer 52 and the description formula judgment criterion, that is, the keyword 30 from the memory (processes 11 and 12), and the OMR of the completed answer sheet. The read data is called from the memory, and the image data of the place where the description type answer column is present is extracted as it is based on the position information, and these are displayed side by side on the computer screen 54 in the description format scoring mode (processing S13).

The test grader makes a judgment by making a judgment in a state where the correct answer data (exemplary answer) 52 input at the time of question creation displayed on the screen 54 and the description part 46 ′ of the description format answer column 46 of the answer sheet 32 are arranged. Do. At that time, an adjustment point is determined in consideration of the additional points by weighting by the keyword 30 (processing S14). When the computer shifts to the total result display mode, the description scoring result and the selection type scoring result are called (processing S15, 16), these are combined (processing S17), and the total of the selection formula and the description formula is displayed on the result totaling screen. The score is displayed (process S18).

2 Computer 4 Network 6 Printer 8 OMR
10 file server 12 question text 14 question text 16 correct answer data 18 correct answer data 20 description 22 format display character 24 format display character 26 correct answer 27 correct answer 28 model answer sentence 30 keyword 32 answer sheet 34 answer sheet 36 question sheet 38 title display section 40 description Format answer field 42 Description format answer field 44 Selection format answer field 46 Description format answer field 48 Character 50 Character 52 Model answer 54 Screen 56 Description

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In the test answer sheet creation method for creating an answer sheet for a test question in which there are mixed questions in the form of answering using the mark sheet method, the correct answer data is entered on the computer. In the correct answer data, a format discriminating character indicating an attribute of whether the data is correct answer data corresponding to a mark sheet format question or correct answer data is given, and the attribute is determined by the format discriminating character. The given correct answer data is read by the computer, and based on the read correct answer data, answer sheet data in which the answer sheet in the mark sheet format and the answer field in the description format are mixed is automatically generated in the computer and stored in the computer. A test answer sheet creation method characterized by the above.   Based on the correct answer data, the answer sheet in which the model answer is mixed in the answer field in which the mark sheet format answer field and the description format answer field are mixed is automatically generated and stored in the computer. The test answer sheet creation method according to claim 1, wherein the test answer sheet is created.   The format discriminating character corresponds to a control signal linked to each answer column generating program in the mark sheet format and the description format, and when the computer reads the format discriminating character, the answer column generating program linked to the control signal causes the computer to The test answer sheet creation method according to claim 1, wherein data of the answer sheet is generated.   2. The test answer sheet creation method according to claim 1, wherein the size of the answer column in the description format is automatically adjusted according to the number of characters of the corresponding correct answer data. A computer software for creating an answer sheet for a test question in a state where there are mixed questions in a format of answering in the form of answering in a mark sheet method,
Computer
A document creation means for creating correct answer data including format discrimination characters for giving an attribute of mark sheet format or description format;
A format discrimination means for reading the format discrimination character in the correct answer data and recognizing the character as specifying a mark sheet format or a description format;
Computer software that functions as answer sheet generation means for automatically creating answer sheet data in which a mark sheet format answer field and a description format answer field are mixed based on the correct answer data. In the test scoring support method for supporting the scoring of test questions in a state where there are mixed questions in the form of answering in the form of answering using the mark sheet method, correct answer data is entered on the computer. , the grant type determination letter indicating whether the attribute is a correct answer data corresponding to or descriptive a correct data corresponding to the format of the question mark sheet in question, the attributes granted by the type determination letter correct An answer sheet in which data is read by a computer and an answer field in the form of a mark sheet and an answer field in a description format are mixed based on the read data, and answer data in which answer data is entered as a model answer in these answer fields When the form data is automatically generated and graded by the computer, the answer sheet written by the respondent is read and used for scoring There are, test scoring support method is characterized in that so as to display in parallel the answer descriptive of model answers the answerer scoring screen of the computer.   The format discriminating character corresponds to a control signal linked to each answer column generating program in the mark sheet format and the description format, and when the computer reads the format discriminating character, the answer column generating program linked to the control signal causes the computer to The test scoring support method according to claim 6, wherein data of the answer sheet is generated.   The test scoring support method according to claim 6, wherein the size of the answer column in the description format is automatically adjusted according to the number of characters of the corresponding correct answer data.   A keyword is added to the correct answer data in the description format, the keyword is displayed on the scoring screen, and the scoring can be weighted based on the presence or absence of the keyword in the answer of the answerer. The test scoring support method according to claim 6, wherein   7. The test scoring support method according to claim 6, wherein a numerical value of the scoring is added to the correct answer data in the description format, and the numerical value of the scoring is displayed on the scoring screen.   The test scoring support method according to claim 6, wherein a plurality of the computers are prepared and connected to each other via a network so that the computer can perform the processing related to the test questions. A computer software for supporting the scoring of test questions in a state where a question sheet is written in a form of answering in the form of a mark sheet,
Computer
A document creation means for creating correct answer data including format discrimination characters for giving an attribute of mark sheet format or description format;
A format discrimination means for reading the format discrimination character in the correct answer data and recognizing the character as specifying a mark sheet format or a description format;
Based on the correct answer data, answer sheet generating means for automatically generating answer sheet data in which a model sheet answer field and a description answer field are mixed and answer answer data in which an answer is entered in the answer field ,
A computer software functioning as an answer parallel display means for displaying an example answer of a description formula and an answer of a read answerer in parallel on the scoring screen in the description format.

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