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Yu Tian; Minkyung Kim; Scott Crossley; Qian Wan – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Investigating links between temporal features of the writing process (e.g., bursts and pauses during writing) and the linguistic features found in written products would help us better understand intersections between the writing process and product. However, research on this topic is rare. This article illustrates a method to examine associations…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Connected Discourse, Writing Processes
Öncel, Püren; Flynn, Lauren E.; Sonia, Allison N.; Barker, Kennis E.; Lindsay, Grace C.; McClure, Caleb M.; McNamara, Danielle S.; Allen, Laura K. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Automated Writing Evaluation systems have been developed to help students improve their writing skills through the automated delivery of both summative and formative feedback. These systems have demonstrated strong potential in a variety of educational contexts; however, they remain limited in their personalization and scope. The purpose of the…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Formative Evaluation, Summative Evaluation
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Allen, Laura K.; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Dascalu, Mihai; Roscoe, Rod D.; Kent, Kevin M.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
This study investigates how and whether information about students' writing can be recovered from basic behavioral data extracted during their sessions in an intelligent tutoring system for writing. We calculate basic and time-sensitive keystroke indices based on log files of keys pressed during students' writing sessions. A corpus of prompt-based…
Descriptors: Essays, Writing Processes, Writing (Composition), Writing Instruction
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Allen, Laura K.; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Dascalu, Mihai; Roscoe, Rod D.; Kent, Kevin M.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2016
This study investigates how and whether information about students' writing can be recovered from basic behavioral data extracted during their sessions in an intelligent tutoring system for writing. We calculate basic and time-sensitive keystroke indices based on log files of keys pressed during students' writing sessions. A corpus of prompt-based…
Descriptors: Writing Processes, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Natural Language Processing, Feedback (Response)
Allen, Laura K.; Mills, Caitlin; Jacovina, Matthew E.; Crossley, Scott; D'Mello, Sidney; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
Writing training systems have been developed to provide students with instruction and deliberate practice on their writing. Although generally successful in providing accurate scores, a common criticism of these systems is their lack of personalization and adaptive instruction. In particular, these systems tend to place the strongest emphasis on…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Psychological Patterns, Writing Instruction, Essays
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Lynch, Collin F., Ed.; Merceron, Agathe, Ed.; Desmarais, Michel, Ed.; Nkambou, Roger, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2019
The 12th iteration of the International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2019) is organized under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year's conference is EDM in Open-Ended Domains. As EDM has matured it has increasingly been applied to open-ended and ill-defined tasks…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Information Retrieval, Content Analysis