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Paul Deane; Duanli Yan; Katherine Castellano; Yigal Attali; Michelle Lamar; Mo Zhang; Ian Blood; James V. Bruno; Chen Li; Wenju Cui; Chunyi Ruan; Colleen Appel; Kofi James; Rodolfo Long; Farah Qureshi – ETS Research Report Series, 2024
This paper presents a multidimensional model of variation in writing quality, register, and genre in student essays, trained and tested via confirmatory factor analysis of 1.37 million essay submissions to ETS' digital writing service, Criterion®. The model was also validated with several other corpora, which indicated that it provides a…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Essays, Models, Elementary School Students
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Heilman, Michael; Breyer, F. Jay; Williams, Frank; Klieger, David; Flor, Michael – ETS Research Report Series, 2015
Graduate school recommendations are an important part of admissions in higher education, and natural language processing may be able to provide objective and consistent analyses of recommendation texts to complement readings by faculty and admissions staff. However, these sorts of high-stakes, personal recommendations are different from the…
Descriptors: Natural Language Processing, College Admission, Admission Criteria, Referral
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Sheehan, Kathleen M.; Kostin, Irene; Futagi, Yoko; Hemat, Ramin; Zuckerman, Daniel – ETS Research Report Series, 2006
This paper describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of an automated system for predicting the acceptability status of candidate reading-comprehension stimuli extracted from a database of journal and magazine articles. The system uses a combination of classification and regression techniques to predict the probability that a given…
Descriptors: Automation, Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Classification