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Feasibility Study of Proposed Architecture for Automatic Assessment of Use-Case Diagram

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Proceedings of International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development

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Abstract

Manual assessment is especially a tedious and time-taking process when the number of students enrolled in a subject is large. Since decade, researchers are constantly working on innovative and automatic way to improve the assessment process. MCQ Online exam is one of the successful examples where the whole evaluation process is fully automatic. However, to evaluate diagrammatic answer is still a challenge. Diagrammatic answer of given Use-Case scenario is highly subjective from student to student and still it can be correct. In such situation, if there is a tool which can automatically assess the student answer and generate a quality feedback will be useful for teachers and students. Objective of this research is to know the feasibility of such tool from the appropriate stakeholders. To find the feasibility of proposed architecture for Automatic Assessment of Use-Case Diagram, online survey has been conducted and detailed statistical analysis of the responses is discussed in this paper.

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  1. School of Computer Studies, Ahmedabad University, Gujarat, India

    Vinay Vachharajani & Sandeep Vasant

  2. Department of Computer Science, Gujarat University, Gujarat, India

    Jyoti Pareek

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Vachharajani, V., Vasant, S., Pareek, J. (2016). Feasibility Study of Proposed Architecture for Automatic Assessment of Use-Case Diagram. In: Satapathy, S., Joshi, A., Modi, N., Pathak, N. (eds) Proceedings of International Conference on ICT for Sustainable Development. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 408. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0129-1_11

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