Revolutionizing Educational Assessment Using Bloom’s Taxonomy Bot

The authors provide a transformative solution to address prevalent challenges in educational assessment in this research work. These challenges include aligning examination papers with syllabi, framing question papers to cover all Bloom’s Levels, and upgrading Bloom’s Levels by re-framing questions. Bloom’s Taxonomy (BT) is a cognitive level-based framework for understanding students’ educational progress through the assessment. The educational assessment method is the foundation for our chatbot, Bloomify. It is designed to revolutionize the assessment and help the keen educationists in three key scenarios. In the first scenario, mostly the educationists are not able to reflect the all the course outcomes of the subject. Bloomify will help them to design the question paper to cover all the course outcomes mapped with Bloom’s levels (BL). Second, often in a hurry, juggling between students’ assessment and institution’s accreditation tasks, the educationists fail to balance the question papers with all BLs covered. Bloomify will overcome the human fatigue and exhaustion associated with the manual creation of balanced question papers. In the third scenario, it is observed that many of the universities use of taxonomies and hence fail to design the assessment for the cognitive development of the students. Bloomify helps the universities that lack taxonomy or use alternative taxonomies, and offers a Bloom’s approach for assessing student development. Further, authors define a Bloom’s Score (BS) to find the average cognitive level of a question paper. BS will help to focus on specific cognitive level of an assessment. For example, the assessment for the graduate students can be defined with BS of 5 or 6 indicating higher Bloom’s levels: evaluate and create. Bloomify automates the calculation of Bloom’s scores ensuring coverage of all the cognitive levels. This will help the educationists in question paper creation process, saving time and effort. Bloomify includes three features: 1. Question classification 2. Suggestion of BL, and 3. Generation of entire question paper based on specific criteria like the syllabus, marking scheme, and desired average Bloom’s score. Bloomify provides a user-friendly interface, ensuring seamless integration with the assessment creation process. Bloomify enhances educational assessment by addressing all cognitive levels, ensuring critical thinking in students. It supports the educationists’ efforts to design an assessment focusing on knowledge application, analysis, evaluation, and creation, aligning with the real-world demands. The effectiveness of Bloomify is gauged by allowing different educationists to use this chatbot and calculating the Mean Opinion Score (MoS). Bloomify received scores of 9, 9.5, and 8 for classification, suggestion, and generation features, respectively from the educators of the authors’ institute.