Indian Statistical Institute to implement Machine Learning to conduct bias-free exams
Posted on 22 November 2019
In order to ease out the way exams are conducted as well as scored, the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) is planning to use an artificial intelligence-powered method (AI/ML) to automate the evaluation of the students’ answer scripts. They are planning to use an AI system that will be programmed to analyse subjective questions like essay writing in which creative writing skills can also be gauged. The primary objective behind this is to make sure that these exams are free of biases, as said by one of the officials.
Under the new system, the students will have to write the answers on tablets using a special type of pen, instead of submitting physical papers. A two-day workshop on machine learning and its application to pattern recognition was conducted at the ISI on 14 and 15 November.
Umapada Pal, professor and head of the ISI’s computer vision and pattern recognition unit has told a certain newspaper, “We need to use artificial intelligence, machine learning and natural language processing to evaluate answer scripts. Evaluating descriptive answers is a challenging task because of various handwriting styles.”