Fuzzy Relations in Evaluation of Computer-Assisted Assessment

                     Susanne Saminger 

                 <Susanne.Saminger@jku.at>


Computer-assisted assessment (CAA) comprises any process of assessing
knowledge, opinions and/or skills with the help of a computer whereas
the involvement of the computer can be accomplished in very different
ways. The focus of the presentation will be set on the evaluation of a
student's answer within self-assessment. After some preliminaries about
CAA we will introduce an evaluation concept based on fuzzy relations
which allows to model the similarity between the student's answer and
the correct answer. We will talk about the underlying mathematical
framework as well as about further possibilities of application like,
e.g., the evaluation of data according to existing prototypes or in
flexible query systems.