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Download full textAllen, Laura K.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2017
The current study examined the degree to which the quality and characteristics of students' essays could be modeled through dynamic natural language processing analyses. Undergraduate students (n = 131) wrote timed, persuasive essays in response to an argumentative writing prompt. Recurrent patterns of the words in the essays were then analyzed…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Essays, Persuasive Discourse, Natural Language Processing
Direct linkMcNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott A.; McCarthy, Philip M. – Written Communication, 2010
In this study, a corpus of expert-graded essays, based on a standardized scoring rubric, is computationally evaluated so as to distinguish the differences between those essays that were rated as high and those rated as low. The automated tool, Coh-Metrix, is used to examine the degree to which high- and low-proficiency essays can be predicted by…
Descriptors: Essays, Undergraduate Students, Educational Quality, Computational Linguistics
