AUTOMATIC EVALUATION OF QUALITY OF EXAMS' QUESTIONS WRITTEN IN ARABIC LANGUAGE BASED ON BLOOM’S TAXONOMY: A SURVEY

Abstract

Most countries of the world are making great efforts in educational reform processes, and they have established quality departments, which have played a major role in the education reform process in first world countries and also in some developing countries, as it is one of the main pillars of the new management model to keep pace with international and local changes.

The studies in the field of Blooms taxonomy in Arabic Language is very rare. However, there is a number of rich different studies conducted in English language using Bloom taxonomy classification of questions.  The written exams questions are the most important tool in use among the evaluation tools that teachers use in universities or schools, and that importance increases when the results of those exams indicate that there is a shortage or lack of production, or that there are shortcomings or weaknesses in the production. Previous studies dealing with research on types of teachers’ Questions and mainly the analysis of   final exam questions, classroom questions or textbook questions. Also there is a number of studies have applied Bloom’s taxonomy to automatic text classification in English language. The materials being classified, features and classifiers used in these studies are summarized below.