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Lynette Hazelton; Jessica Nastal; Norbert Elliot; Jill Burstein; Daniel F. McCaffrey – Journal of Response to Writing, 2021
In writing studies research, automated writing evaluation technology is typically examined for a specific, often narrow purpose: to evaluate a particular writing improvement measure, to mine data for changes in writing performance, or to demonstrate the effectiveness of a single technology and accompanying validity arguments. This article adopts a…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Automation, Natural Language Processing
Lynette Hazelton; Jessica Nastal; Norbert Elliot; Jill Burstein; Daniel F. McCaffrey – Grantee Submission, 2021
In writing studies research, automated writing evaluation technology is typically examined for a specific, often narrow purpose: to evaluate a particular writing improvement measure, to mine data for changes in writing performance, or to demonstrate the effectiveness of a single technology and accompanying validity arguments. This article adopts a…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Automation, Natural Language Processing
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Zhang, H.; Magooda, A.; Litman, D.; Correnti, R.; Wang, E.; Matsumura, L. C.; Howe, E.; Quintana, R. – Grantee Submission, 2019
Writing a good essay typically involves students revising an initial paper draft after receiving feedback. We present eRevise, a web-based writing and revising environment that uses natural language processing features generated for rubric-based essay scoring to trigger formative feedback messages regarding students' use of evidence in…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Essays, Writing (Composition), Revision (Written Composition)
Crossley, Scott A.; Kyle, Kristopher; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study investigates the relative efficacy of using linguistic micro-features, the aggregation of such features, and a combination of micro-features and aggregated features in developing automatic essay scoring (AES) models. Although the use of aggregated features is widespread in AES systems (e.g., e-rater; Intellimetric), very little…
Descriptors: Essays, Scoring, Feedback (Response), Writing Evaluation
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Benotti, Luciana; Martinez, Maria Cecilia; Schapachnik, Fernando – IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, 2018
In this paper we present a software platform called Chatbot designed to introduce high school students to Computer Science (CS) concepts in an innovative way: by programming chatbots. A chatbot is a bot that can be programmed to have a conversation with a human or robotic partner in some natural language such as English or Spanish. While…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Introductory Courses, Computer Science, High School Students
International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2012
The IADIS CELDA 2012 Conference intention was to address the main issues concerned with evolving learning processes and supporting pedagogies and applications in the digital age. There had been advances in both cognitive psychology and computing that have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these two disciplines is increasing at a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Persistence, Academic Support Services, Access to Computers