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ADPS--A Prescreening Tool for Students with Dyslexia in Learning Traditional Chinese
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Ka-Yan Fung; Kit-Yi Tang; Tze Leung Rick Lui; Kuen-Fung Sin; Lik-Hang Lee; Huamin Qu; Shenghui Song – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2024
Prescreening children for specific learning disabilities, e.g., dyslexia, is essential for effective intervention. With a quick and reliable prescreening result, special education coordinators (SENCOs) can provide students with early intervention and relieve their learning pressure. Unfortunately, due to the limited resources, many students in…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Children, Computer Software, Early Intervention
Self-Proctored Mechanism for Online High-Stake Assessments in University Courses
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Cham, Chun Yin; Chow, Kwok Wing; Lei, Chi-Un – International Journal of Learning Technology, 2022
The aim of the study was to develop a cost-effective form of online proctoring mechanism that can serve as a scalable and secure solution to cater to high-stake assessments in institutions, with a particular focus on attaining high levels of flexibility and user-friendliness. With reference to existing systems, a self-proctored mechanism is…
Descriptors: High Stakes Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Supervision, Undergraduate Students
Experimenting with a Computer Essay-Scoring Program Based on ESL Student Writing Scripts
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Coniam, David – ReCALL, 2009
This paper describes a study of the computer essay-scoring program BETSY. While the use of computers in rating written scripts has been criticised in some quarters for lacking transparency or lack of fit with how human raters rate written scripts, a number of essay rating programs are available commercially, many of which claim to offer comparable…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Scoring, Foreign Countries, Interrater Reliability
Institutional-Level Integration of the Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI)
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Kwong, Theresa; Wong, Eva; Downing, Kevin – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2009
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to exhibit the integration of learning and study strategies inventory (LASSI) with the City University of Hong Kong information systems to promote teaching and learning within the university. Design/methodology/approach: From the 2006 entry cohort, all undergraduate freshmen at City University of Hong Kong are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Study Skills, Teaching Methods, Administrators
A Computer-Assisted Test Design and Diagnosis System for Use by Classroom Teachers
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He, Q.; Tymms, P. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2005
Computer-assisted assessment (CAA) has become increasingly important in education in recent years. A variety of computer software systems have been developed to help assess the performance of students at various levels. However, such systems are primarily designed to provide objective assessment of students and analysis of test items, and focus…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Assisted Testing, Test Construction, Test Results
From Text to Test, Automatically--An Evaluation of a Computer Cloze-Test Generator.
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Coniam, David – Hong Kong Journal of Applied Linguistics, 1998
Examines the process of developing an English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) cloze test by computer based on a language corpus. Two such tests developed and pilot-tested in Hong Kong were found to have test items that were not as good as they would have been if designed by a competent human, but better than expected. (Author/MSE)
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Cloze Procedure, Computer Assisted Testing, Computer Software Evaluation