Automatic Student Feedback Summarization — Why?

Student Feedback Summarization | Education System | Text Summarization | Automation

Student feedback is used widely in present in order to enhance the quality of teaching and learning process by improving the teacher-student relationship. Feedback is collected from students as online forms as well as handwritten documents. Since it takes a lot of time and effort to read and understand all the feedback given by the students, the best way is to read all the feedback and create a summary for the lecturers, students and the management to understand.

Although many lecturers collect student feedback, comments written by students are not summarized, and if a lecturer wants to get a summary of these comments, the lecturer has to manually read and summarize all these comments. Manual summarization is not scalable; In a large class with more than a few hundred students, it is going to be a tedious and rigorous task.

Therefore a system to summarize all student feedback and giving an overall summary will be very useful for teachers, lecturers, schools, universities, and all education systems to attend to the student feedback and to improve the education system.

If I summarize what I’ve said..

• Student feedback is used to enhance the quality of teaching and learning process
• Summarizing the feedbacks makes it easier to understand
• Although many lecturers collect student feedback, comments written by students are not summarized
• To get a summary, the lecturer has to read and summarize all these comments and in a large class it is going to be hard
• Therefore a system to summarizing all student feedback and giving an overall summary will be very useful

Hope you got an idea why automatic student feedback summarization is needed!

Cheers! :D

“We all need people who will give us feedback.

That’s how we improve.”

~ Bill Gates