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Paul Deane; Duanli Yan; Katherine Castellano; Yigal Attali; Michelle Lamar; Mo Zhang; Ian Blood; James V. Bruno; Chen Li; Wenju Cui; Chunyi Ruan; Colleen Appel; Kofi James; Rodolfo Long; Farah Qureshi – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
This paper presents a multidimensional model of variation in writing quality, register, and genre in student essays, trained and tested via confirmatory factor analysis of 1.37 million essay submissions to ETS' digital writing service, Criterion®. The model was also validated with several other corpora, which indicated that it provides a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Essays, Models, Elementary School Students
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Chukharev-Hudilainen, Evgeny; Ockey, Gary J. – ETS Research Report Series, 2021
This paper describes the development and evaluation of Interaction Competence Elicitor (ICE), a spoken dialog system (SDS) for the delivery of a paired oral discussion task in the context of language assessment. The purpose of ICE is to sustain a topic-specific conversation with a test taker in order to elicit discourse that can be later judged to…
Descriptors: Intercultural Communication, Oral Language, Communicative Competence (Languages), Error Analysis (Language)