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Tahereh Firoozi; Hamid Mohammadi; Mark J. Gierl – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2025
The purpose of this study is to describe and evaluate a multilingual automated essay scoring (AES) system for grading essays in three languages. Two different sentence embedding models were evaluated within the AES system, multilingual BERT (mBERT) and language-agnostic BERT sentence embedding (LaBSE). German, Italian, and Czech essays were…
Descriptors: College Students, Slavic Languages, German, Italian
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Hubert, Michael D.; Vigil, Donny – Applied Language Learning, 2017
Adult second/foreign language acquisition is extremely challenging for many learners, with pronunciation often the one aspect in which otherwise very proficient language users fall short. Although a great deal of research has found that formal instruction in phonetics/phonology may improve learner pronunciation, no study has yet addressed the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Pronunciation Instruction
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Liang, Jyh-Chong; Tsai, Chin-Chung – Internet and Higher Education, 2010
This study used an online peer assessment activity to help 47 college students to learn biology through writing. Each student submitted a biology writing report to an online system and then experienced three rounds of peer assessment. During the online peer assessment process, self, peer and expert evaluation scores for the writing were gathered…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Validity, Biology, Science Instruction