2010 Volume 33 Issue 4 Pages 459-465
This paper considers the scope of applicability of an assistance map using singular value decomposition for grading term papers. Through this method, evaluators rated two types of term papers that differed according to theme and question type, and the report contents and evaluation scores were subsequently visualized. The results showed that the scores for the evaluation item regarding the "comprehensibility of characteristic words used in the report" for the question type that required the writer to adopt a fixed viewpoint, such as for or against a proposition, tended to be visualized in equal clusters of scores for each paper in the assistance map. From this, it became clear what report question types and evaluation criteria enable grading assistance by this visualization method.
