ClozeFormHandwriting v1.0 This is the first public release of ClozeFormHandwriting, a dataset of English single-word handwritten cloze-form classroom responses. What's included 3,000 cropped handwritten word images (correct responses) from classroom answer sheets Ground-truth transcriptions encoded in filenames: _.png Split logs: log_train.txt log_test.txt Documentation and usage instructions in README.md License and citation files (LICENSE, CITATION.cff) Notes This release focuses on word-level recognition under low-legibility handwriting. The dataset contains variation in stroke width, slant, spacing, and legibility typical of real classroom writing. Please refer to the repository README for dataset structure and loading examples. Ethics & privacy According to the original dataset documentation, the student responses were collected under institutional permissions for research use and were fully anonymized prior to release. The released dataset contains no personally identifiable information (PII), and no writer identifiers are provided. License CC BY 4.0 Citation If you use this dataset, please cite the dataset and the associated paper as described in README.md / CITATION.cff.

If you use this dataset, please cite the paper below. @inproceedings{chandola2025far, title={How far are we from Automatic Grading of Handwritten Cloze Form Questions?}, author={Chandola, Shrey and Ravikiran, Manikandan and Saluja, Rohit}, booktitle={International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education}, pages={336--343}, year={2025}, organization={Springer} }