An overview of an automated essay grading systems on content and non content based

Abstract

Assessment is considered to play an essential function inside the Educational System. The interest of using automatic tools by human beings has been increased. So in the same way student response evaluation in education system with automatic assessment systems has grown exponentially in the last couple of years. Due to the increasing number of students and the use of online MOOC courses and lack of time and lack of consistency, assessment is shifted to automatic assessment. In this regard many of the researchers worked on it to make the assessment process easy. And they succeeded in assessment objective-type questions: i.e. multiple choices. Now here comes an interesting part is to assess the essays with automated tools. In this area, more number of researches worked and invented some tools for grading the essays but not up to the mark. Most of the assessment tools were assigning grades based on the style that is the number of sentences, the number of words, parts of speech, length of an essay, and grammar but not on the content of the essay. But few of the tools grading the essays based on the content by using traditional methods, and very few tools are using natural language processing methods.