Cognitive Knowledge Representation for Examination Questions Specification Analysis

The quality of education is relatively important to improve the quality of teaching. The quality of teaching is reflected on the quality of examination paper. A quality examination paper can be measured against the specification stated in Test Specification Table (JSU). In order to reduce the subjectivity and randomness of the evaluation on examination paper, this paper demonstrates a representation model, which assists the educators to analyze the percentage of accuracy between examination paper specification (EPS) and JSU. The parameters used are cognitive level and score. Keyword extraction and classification approach based on Information Retrieval has been implemented to yield the analysis. In addition, the analysis provides the error percentage between EPS and JSU. The specification analysis gives high impact to educational sectors by ensuring quality standard of assessment mechanism. It can be used by all tertiary level of education to evaluate the quality of examination question paper.