Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Applications For Assessment and Evaluation in Education: Opportunities and New Approaches

This study examines the applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies in education, particularly in educational assessment and evaluation processes. The study examines the potential of these technologies to contribute to educational assessment and evaluation processes in areas such as automatic item generation, text mining, sentiment analysis, sentence similarity, and providing feedback to students. The study includes both a literature review and sample applications. In the automatic item generation process of the study, language models such as GPT and Gemini are used to generate new educational questions and this process is supported by NLP technologies. The study is enriched with Turkish examples and the results show that these applications can be further developed for Turkish and have potential for other applications.