Automated Grading of PowerPoint Presentations Using Latent Semantic Analysis

Abstract

Manual grading of students’ work takes a long time and it is stressful. Evaluator may be holistic or analytic, lenient or non-lenient, experienced or inexperienced; which leads to non-uniformity in the assessment. Therefore, it is essential to do the automated grading of students' work to overcome human inadequacies through uniform assessment and also, it reduces workload of human evaluators. A novel automatic grading of students' PowerPoint presentation skills using Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) is proposed. Program is implemented in python to extract features corresponding to the text appearance, graphics, footer, and hyperlink from the PowerPoint presentations. PowerPoint presentations are represented using feature vectors in the Latent Semantic Space using Singular Value Decomposition (SVD). SVD reveals relationships between features and PowerPoint presentations. The grades for the students' PowerPoint presentations are evaluated by finding Cosine similarity with reference presentations or finding k number of nearest reference presentations. The grades of such reference or nearest presentations are used to grade students' presentations. Kneighbors classifier used to find nearest neighbors. Kneighbors and Cosine Similarity approach give 90.90% and 81.81% accuracy, respectively, while predicting the grades for the students’ PowerPoint presentations.