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Shahzad, Areeba; Wali, Aamir – Education and Information Technologies, 2022
Checking essays written by students is a very time consuming task. Besides spellings and grammar, they also need to be evaluated on their semantic content such as cohesion, coherence, etc. In this study we focus on one such aspect of semantic content which is the topic of the essay. Putting it formally, given a prompt or essay-statement and an…
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Essays, Writing Evaluation, Semantics
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Murad Abdu Saeed; Mohammed Abdullah Alharbi – Innovations in Education and Teaching International, 2025
Recently, audio-visual feedback produced through screencast technology has received increasing attention. Yet, as opposed to synchronous (immediate) and bi-directional (a two-way process) audio-visual feedback, most recent research has focused on asynchronous (delayed) and unidirectional (a one-way process) audio-visual feedback. Therefore, this…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Synchronous Communication, Asynchronous Communication, Feedback (Response)
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Beccaria, Lisa; Kek, Megan; Huijser, Henk – Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 2019
Undergraduate nursing students often find essay writing challenging, and feel underprepared, yet the impact of using online feedback to support essay writing has been underexplored. First-year nursing students from a regional university were involved in a project that encouraged them to access an online tutoring service, as part of their…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Nursing Students, Undergraduate Students, Essays
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Mogey, Nora; Fluck, Andrew – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2015
It seems anachronistic that we expect students to handwrite essay examinations when almost all their other work is mediated by computer. Two universities, one in the UK and one in Australia, are exploring the use of computers in free text response examinations. This paper compares both the attitudes and the behaviours of their students concerning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Handwriting, Computer Uses in Education, Essays
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Ortiz Navarrete, Mabel; Ferreira Cabrera, Anita – PROFILE: Issues in Teachers' Professional Development, 2014
This paper aims at proposing a technique for students learning English as a foreign language when they collaboratively write an argumentative essay in a wiki environment. A wiki environment and collaborative work play an important role within the academic writing task. Nevertheless, an appropriate and systematic work assignment is required in…
Descriptors: Collaborative Writing, Essays, English (Second Language), Computer Uses in Education
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Andreou, Georgia; Riga, Asimina; Papayiannis, Nikolaos – Themes in Science and Technology Education, 2016
The present study investigates whether the use of ICTs improves the writing performance of students with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). It also examines whether gender affects performance. A number of ADHD students were selected and were assessed for their use of a combination of distinct educational tools. Divided into two…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Writing Skills, Writing Improvement
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Jackowicz, Stephen, Ed.; Ozturk, Omer Tayfur, Ed. – Online Submission, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences (ICSES) which took place on November 11-14, 2021 in Antalya, Turkey. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Stress Variables
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Jackowicz, Stephen, Ed.; Ozturk, Omer Tayfur, Ed. – International Society for Technology, Education, and Science, 2021
"Proceedings of International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences" includes full papers presented at the International Conference on Studies in Education and Social Sciences (ICSES) which took place on November 11-14, 2021 in Antalya, Turkey. The aim of the conference is to offer opportunities to share ideas, to…
Descriptors: Emotional Intelligence, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety, Stress Variables
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Kim, Il-Hee – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
This article investigates the effect of participation in synchronous online discussions on the development of individual reasoning as manifested in reflective essays. Students from a fourth-grade classroom engaged in a series of real-time online discussions. The format of the discussion was based on the Collaborative Reasoning approach which has…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Synchronous Communication
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Wang, Y.; Harrington, M.; White, P. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2012
This paper introduces "CTutor", an automated writing evaluation (AWE) tool for detecting breakdowns in local coherence and reports on a study that applies it to the writing of Chinese L2 English learners. The program is based on Centering theory (CT), a theory of local coherence and salience. The principles of CT are first introduced and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Technology, Expertise, Feedback (Response)
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Kashani, Hajar; Mahmud, Rosnaini Binti; Kalajahi, Seyed Ali Rezvani – English Language Teaching, 2013
In today's world, there are lots of methods in language teaching in general and teaching writing in particular. Using two different tools in writing essays and conducting a study to compare the effectiveness of these two tools namely blog and pen-and-paper was the basis of this study. This study used a quantitative true experimental design aimed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Writing (Composition), Essays, Writing Skills
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Kommalage, Mahinda – Advances in Physiology Education, 2012
Medical students following a traditional curriculum get few opportunities to engage in activities such as a literature search, scientific writing, and active and collaborative learning. An analytical essay writing activity (AEWA) in physiology was introduced to first-year students. Each student prepared an essay incorporating new research findings…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Medical Students, Textbooks, Medical Schools
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Chong, Mike R.; Goff, Lori; Dej, Kimberly – Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 2012
We implemented two different approaches of using peer review to support undergraduate essay assignments for students taking large second-year courses in life sciences and biology: a web-based online peer review (OPR) approach and a more traditional face-to-face peer review (FPR) approach that was conducted in tutorial settings. The essays…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Essays, Writing Assignments, Student Evaluation
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Seifried, Eva; Lenhard, Wolfgang; Baier, Herbert; Spinath, Birgit – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2012
This study investigates the potential of a software tool based on Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA; Landauer, McNamara, Dennis, & Kintsch, 2007) to automatically evaluate complex German texts. A sample of N = 94 German university students provided written answers to questions that involved a high amount of analytical reasoning and evaluation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Computer Software, Computer Software Evaluation, Computer Uses in Education
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Marchis, Iuliana – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2010
The article focuses on the creation of presentations on ICT classes. The first part highlights the most important steps when creating a presentation. The main idea is, that the computer presentation shouldn't consist only from the technological part, i.e. the editing of the presentation in a computer program. There are many steps before and after…
Descriptors: Information Technology, Teaching Methods, Visual Aids, Computer Uses in Education
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