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Sherin, Bruce – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2013
A large body of research in the learning sciences has focused on students' commonsense science knowledge--the everyday knowledge of the natural world that is gained outside of formal instruction. Although researchers studying commonsense science have employed a variety of methods, 1-on-1 clinical interviews have played a unique role. The data…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Computational Linguistics, Transcripts (Written Records), Interviews
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Crossley, Scott A.; Roscoe, Rod; McNamara, Danielle S. – Written Communication, 2014
This study identifies multiple profiles of successful essays via a cluster analysis approach using linguistic features reported by a variety of natural language processing tools. The findings from the study indicate that there are four profiles of successful writers for the samples analyzed. These four profiles are linguistically distinct from one…
Descriptors: Essays, Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, Multivariate Analysis