Automatic Scoring Using Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency Document Frequency and Cosine Similarity

Purpose: In the learning process, most of the tests to assess learning achievement have been carried out by providing questions in the form of short answers or essay questions. The variety of answers given by students makes a teacher have to focus on reading them. This scoring process is difficult to guarantee quality if done manually. In addition, each class is taught by a different teacher, which can lead to unequal grades obtained by students due to the influence of differences in teacher experience. Therefore the purpose of this study is to develop an assessment of the answers. Automated short answer scoring is designed to automatically grade and evaluate students' answers based on a series of trained answer documents.Methods: This is ‘how’ you did it. Let readers know exactly what you did to reach your results. For example, did you undertake interviews? Did you carry out an experiment in the lab? What tools, methods, protocols or datasets did you use The method used is TF-IDF-DF and Similarity and scoring computation.  Theword weight used is the term Frequency-Inverse Documents Frequency -Document Frequency (TF-IDF-DF) method. The data used is 5 questions with each question answered by 30 students, while the students' answers are assessed by teachers/experts to determine the real score. The study was evaluated by Mean Absolute Error (MAE).Result: The evaluation results obtained Mean Absolute Error (MAE) with a resulting value of 0.123.Value: The word weighting method used is the Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency DocumentFrequency (TF-IDF-DF) which is an improvement over the Term Frequency Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) method. This method is a method of weighting words that will be applied before calculating the similarity of sentences between teachers and students.