Unbelievable but true!! Artificial Intelligence or AI to correct answer sheets of the students in TN universities!!
Few years back, if someone had told us that one day AI or Artificial Intelligence technology would be used to correct the answer sheets of the students, then we would have considered it as a joke!!
Now, the sensational piece of news is that AI would be used to evaluate the answer sheets of the students with great accuracy. Soon, the Higher Education Dept of TN would be introducing AI technology at the universities for the answer sheet correction.
It is worth mentioning here that currently answer sheets are evaluated manually and online (in the universities and in the higher education institutions) by the professors and teaching staff etc present in the universities. One important disadvantage of manual evaluation is it is time consuming. For correcting one answer sheet about half an hour is spent. The professors involved in answer sheets evaluation would take more time due to introduction of new exam models like optional and compulsory questions etc.
It was later brought out by a senior official belonging to the Higher Education Dept that despite proper evaluation of answer sheets there were complaints and errors were noticed during the re-evaluation process. Thousands of answer sheets could be evaluated in just a few minutes with the help of AI technology.
How will the AI work?
Here, the answer sheets would be scanned and fed into the AI evaluation software having all correct stored answers. Both the data stored and students` answers would be compared by this AI software and marks and grade would be issued accordingly. By AI method, malpractices would be eradicated completely.
Point is that AI based evaluation is being used by certain educational institutions now. The advanced mobile apps downloaded by the professors would help in the evaluation of the answer sheets of the students.
