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Odden, Tor Ole B.; Silvia, Devin W.; Malthe-Sørenssen, Anders – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2023
This article reports on a study investigating how computational essays can be used to help students in higher education STEM take up disciplinary epistemic agency--cognitive control and responsibility over one's own learning within the scientific disciplines. Computational essays are a genre of scientific writing that combine live, executable…
Descriptors: Computation, Essays, Undergraduate Students, STEM Education
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Tahereh Firoozi; Okan Bulut; Mark J. Gierl – International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2023
The proliferation of large language models represents a paradigm shift in the landscape of automated essay scoring (AES) systems, fundamentally elevating their accuracy and efficacy. This study presents an extensive examination of large language models, with a particular emphasis on the transformative influence of transformer-based models, such as…
Descriptors: Turkish, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Accuracy
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Fleischer, Yannik; Biehler, Rolf; Schulte, Carsten – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2022
This study examines modelling with machine learning. In the context of a yearlong data science course, the study explores how upper secondary students apply machine learning with Jupyter Notebooks and document the modelling process as a computational essay incorporating the different steps of the CRISP-DM cycle. The students' work is based on a…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Educational Research, Electronic Learning, Secondary School Students
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Uzun, Kutay; Ulum, Ömer Gökhan – Acuity: Journal of English Language Pedagogy, Literature and Culture, 2022
This study aimed to utilize sentiment and sentence similarity analyses, two Natural Language Processing techniques, to see if and how well they could predict L2 Writing Performance in integrated and independent task conditions. The data sources were an integrated L2 writing corpus of 185 literary analysis essays and an independent L2 writing…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing (Composition)
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Myers, Matthew C.; Wilson, Joshua – International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 2023
This study evaluated the construct validity of six scoring traits of an automated writing evaluation (AWE) system called "MI Write." Persuasive essays (N = 100) written by students in grades 7 and 8 were randomized at the sentence-level using a script written with Python's NLTK module. Each persuasive essay was randomized 30 times (n =…
Descriptors: Construct Validity, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Algorithms
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Restrepo-Ramos, Falcon – Hispania, 2021
This study examines the linguistic complexity of Spanish as a second language (L2) in learners' essays across proficiency levels at two timelines of a composition class during a college semester. Data comes from 22 L2 learners of Spanish enrolled in two sections of a third-year composition class at the college level, who were assigned nine…
Descriptors: Spanish, Writing Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
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Sakibayev, Razakh; Sakibayev, Spartak; Sakibayeva, Bela – Australian Educational Computing, 2018
The article contains the results of the study conducted in order to discover the most effective ways of developing students' programming abilities with the means of non-programming disciplines and activities. The authors observe the learning practices and habits employed by students with highly developed programming abilities and compare these…
Descriptors: Programming, Mathematics Skills, Interdisciplinary Approach, Games
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Bishop-Clark, Cathy; Courte, Jill; Evans, Donna; Howard, Elizabeth V. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2007
In this investigation, the use of the Alice programming language in an introductory computing class was studied from both a quantitative and qualitative perspective. Students in an introductory computing class participated in a 2.5-week unit to learn programming through the graphical programming environment of Alice. Quantitatively, students were…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Computers, Investigations, Essays
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Thomas, Theda; Davis, Tim; Kazlauskas, Alanah – Journal of Information Technology Education, 2007
It is important for students to develop critical thinking and other higher-order thinking skills during their tertiary studies. Along with the ability to think critically comes the need to develop students' meta-cognitive skills. These abilities work together to enable students to control, monitor, and regulate their own cognitive processes and…
Descriptors: Systems Analysis, Problem Solving, Logical Thinking, Essays