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Direct linkCharalampos-S Charitsis – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The employment rate of software developers has risen significantly over the last 30 years. As a result, more students are considering computer science as a potential career path. Over the last 15 years, introductory programming course (CS1) enrollment has been increasing at a much faster rate than the increase in the number of CS faculty, with no…
Descriptors: Computer Science Education, Programming, Natural Language Processing, Computer Software
Binglin Chen – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Assessment is a key component of education. Routine grading of students' work, however, is time consuming. Automating the grading process allows instructors to spend more of their time helping their students learn and engaging their students with more open-ended, creative activities. One way to automate grading is through computer-based…
Descriptors: College Students, STEM Education, Student Evaluation, Grading
Yi Gui – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This study explores using transfer learning in machine learning for natural language processing (NLP) to create generic automated essay scoring (AES) models, providing instant online scoring for statewide writing assessments in K-12 education. The goal is to develop an instant online scorer that is generalizable to any prompt, addressing the…
Descriptors: Writing Tests, Natural Language Processing, Writing Evaluation, Scoring
Alexander James Kwako – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Automated assessment using Natural Language Processing (NLP) has the potential to make English speaking assessments more reliable, authentic, and accessible. Yet without careful examination, NLP may exacerbate social prejudices based on gender or native language (L1). Current NLP-based assessments are prone to such biases, yet research and…
Descriptors: Gender Bias, Natural Language Processing, Native Language, Computational Linguistics
Mohler, Michael A. G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
In this dissertation, I explore unsupervised techniques for the task of automatic short answer grading. I compare a number of knowledge-based and corpus-based measures of text similarity, evaluate the effect of domain and size on the corpus-based measures, and also introduce a novel technique to improve the performance of the system by integrating…
Descriptors: Grading, Test Items, Sentences, Computer Assisted Testing
Ababneh, Mohammad – ProQuest LLC, 2014
A dialog system or a conversational agent provides a means for a human to interact with a computer system. Dialog systems use text, voice and other means to carry out conversations with humans in order to achieve some objective. Most dialog systems are created with specific objectives in mind and consist of preprogrammed conversations. The primary…
Descriptors: Item Response Theory, Web 2.0 Technologies, Computer System Design, Intelligent Tutoring Systems
