18. Short answer questions

Having had the bot marking essays I thought it would be fun to get it to mark some short answer questions. I chose another candidate response from Understanding Standards. Again the only reason for choosing the one that I did was because it had been typed.

You'll find the responses from the bot on the next page. I omitted question four as the bot, being a language tool, isn't able to say whether an argument diagram has been drawn correctly. As always what it says needs checking but its spooky, human-like characteristics can be seen in the mistake it made in marking question 8.

A comparison with the SQA awarded marks is given in the table below. Although the bot didn't always award the same marks it ended up with the same total.

Max SQA Bot
Q.1(a) 1 1 1
Q.1(b) 1 1 1
Q.1(c) 1 1 1
Q.2(a) 1 1 1
Q.2(b) 1 0 0
Q.3 2 2 2
Q.4 3    
Q.5 3 2 2
Q.6(a) 1 1 1
Q.6(b) 2 2 1
Q.7(a) 2 0 1
Q.7(b) 2 2 2
Q.8(a) 1 0 1
Q.8(b) 2 2 2
Q.9(a) 1 1 1
Q.9(b) 1 1 1
Q.9(c) 3 2 3
Q.10 2 1 2
       
Q.11 2 1 1
Q.12 2 1 1
Q.13 2 1 1
Q.14 4 4 2
       
Q.15 1 1 1
Q.16 2 0 0
Q.17 4 3 2
Q.18 3 0 0