A Tablet -based Chinese Composition Assessment System

Abstract

Chinese composition is an important aspect for students to learn the Chinese language. In this paper, we present our tablet-based Chinese composition assessment system. We have implemented a system to be run on a pen -based tablet device to help teachers assess student’s composition. Our system is able to display student’s composition work on the tablet device, allowing teachers to markup on the student’s work to provide written comments and record his/her voice to provide oral comments. The recorded assessment session can be played back such that the written comments can be shown which are synchronized with the oral comments. Our system facilitates teachers to provide both written and oral comments easily which can be stored and played back. Our system can also be used by researchers to analyze teachers’ assessment process by studying their feedback.