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Liu, Ming; Wang, Yuqi; Xu, Weiwei; Liu, Li – International Journal of Distance Education Technologies, 2017
The number of Chinese engineering students has increased greatly since 1999. Rating the quality of these students' English essays has thus become time-consuming and challenging. This paper presents a novel automatic essay scoring algorithm called PSOSVR, based on a machine learning algorithm, Support Vector Machine for Regression (SVR), and a…
Descriptors: Essays, English (Second Language), College Second Language Programs, Engineering Education
Gimeno, Ana, Ed. – European Association for Computer-Assisted Language Learning (EUROCALL), 2014
"The EUROCALL Review" is EUROCALL's open access online scientific journal. Regular sections include: (1) Reports on EUROCALL Special Interest Groups: up-to-date information on SIG activities; (2) Projects: reports on on-going CALL or CALL-related R&D projects; (3) Recommended websites: reports and reviews of examples of good practice…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Grammar
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Zechner, Klaus; Bejar, Isaac I.; Hemat, Ramin – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
The increasing availability and performance of computer-based testing has prompted more research on the automatic assessment of language and speaking proficiency. In this investigation, we evaluated the feasibility of using an off-the-shelf speech-recognition system for scoring speaking prompts from the LanguEdge field test of 2002. We first…
Descriptors: Role, Computer Assisted Testing, Language Proficiency, Oral Language
Kommers, Piet, Ed.; Issa, Tomayess, Ed.; Issa, Theodora, Ed.; McKay, Elspeth, Ed.; Isias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2016
These proceedings contain the papers and posters of the International Conferences on Internet Technologies & Society (ITS 2016), Educational Technologies (ICEduTech 2016) and Sustainability, Technology and Education (STE 2016), which have been organised by the International Association for Development of the Information Society and…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Countries, Internet, Educational Technology
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Carrell, Patricia L. – ETS Research Report Series, 2007
Utilizing a pre- and posttest research design, with an instructional intervention of good practices in notetaking, the notes taken by examinees during a computer-based listening comprehension test prior to and following the instructional intervention were examined for particular notetaking strategies. Questionnaires probed perceptions of the…
Descriptors: Notetaking, Pretests Posttests, Correlation, English (Second Language)
BCEL Brief, 1993
This brief describes 23 computer-based adult literacy programs developed for instructional use in workplace and general literacy settings and 11 guides and research reports. Descriptions contain these types of information: area(s) taught or assessed; format; intended users; instructional objective(s); required hardware; cost; companion print…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Computer Assisted Instruction
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Stricker, Lawrence J.; Rock, Donald A.; Lee, Yong-Won – ETS Research Report Series, 2005
This study assessed the factor structure of the LanguEdge™ test and the invariance of its factors across language groups. Confirmatory factor analyses of individual tasks and subsets of items in the four sections of the test, Listening, Reading, Speaking, and Writing, was carried out for Arabic-, Chinese-, and Spanish-speaking test takers. Two…
Descriptors: Factor Structure, Language Tests, Factor Analysis, Semitic Languages
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2005
For the twenty-eighth year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Orlando, Florida. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Communications, Computer Uses in Education, Word Problems (Mathematics)