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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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Gombert, Sebastian; Di Mitri, Daniele; Karademir, Onur; Kubsch, Marcus; Kolbe, Hannah; Tautz, Simon; Grimm, Adrian; Bohm, Isabell; Neumann, Knut; Drachsler, Hendrik – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2023
Background: Formative assessments are needed to enable monitoring how student knowledge develops throughout a unit. Constructed response items which require learners to formulate their own free-text responses are well suited for testing their active knowledge. However, assessing such constructed responses in an automated fashion is a complex task…
Descriptors: Coding, Energy, Scientific Concepts, Formative Evaluation
Nicula, Bogdan; Dascalu, Mihai; Newton, Natalie; Orcutt, Ellen; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2021
The ability to automatically assess the quality of paraphrases can be very useful for facilitating literacy skills and providing timely feedback to learners. Our aim is twofold: a) to automatically evaluate the quality of paraphrases across four dimensions: lexical similarity, syntactic similarity, semantic similarity and paraphrase quality, and…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Networks, Semantics, Feedback (Response)
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Sinclair, Jeanne; Jang, Eunice Eunhee; Rudzicz, Frank – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2021
Advances in machine learning (ML) are poised to contribute to our understanding of the linguistic processes associated with successful reading comprehension, which is a critical aspect of children's educational success. We used ML techniques to investigate and compare associations between children's reading comprehension and 260 linguistic…
Descriptors: Prediction, Reading Comprehension, Natural Language Processing, Speech Communication