Part-of-Speech in a Node-Link Scoring Techniques for Assessing Learners’ Understanding

Assessment is the process of which the quality of the candidate achievements can be judged. Automated assessment tools can be useful assistants to human examiners. This paper discusses a work on an automated assessment tool that applied a node-link analysis technique. The tool is able to assess short sentences answers. It uses Part-of-speech as important criteria during the node analysis process. Results have shown that using more relevant Part-of-speech gives a more reliable assessment results in judging a learners’ understanding on a particular subject matter.