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Latifi, Syed; Gierl, Mark – Language Testing, 2021
An automated essay scoring (AES) program is a software system that uses techniques from corpus and computational linguistics and machine learning to grade essays. In this study, we aimed to describe and evaluate particular language features of Coh-Metrix for a novel AES program that would score junior and senior high school students' essays from…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Computer Assisted Testing, Scoring, Essays
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van Steensel, Roel; Oostdam, Ron; van Gelderen, Amos – Language Testing, 2013
On the basis of a validation study of a new test for assessing low-achieving adolescents' reading comprehension skills--the SALT-reading--we analyzed two issues relevant to the field of reading test development. Using the test results of 200 seventh graders, we examined the possibility of identifying reading comprehension subskills and the effects…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Low Achievement, Reading Comprehension, Reading Tests