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Direct linkLatifi, 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
Chen, Dandan; Hebert, Michael; Wilson, Joshua – American Educational Research Journal, 2022
We used multivariate generalizability theory to examine the reliability of hand-scoring and automated essay scoring (AES) and to identify how these scoring methods could be used in conjunction to optimize writing assessment. Students (n = 113) included subsamples of struggling writers and non-struggling writers in Grades 3-5 drawn from a larger…
Descriptors: Reliability, Scoring, Essays, Automation
Zhang, Mo; van Rijn, Peter W.; Deane, Paul; Bennett, Randy E. – Educational Assessment, 2019
Writing from source text is critical for developing college-and-career readiness because it is required in advanced academic environments and many vocations. Scenario-based assessment (SBA) represents one approach to measuring this ability. In such assessment, the scenario presents an issue that the student is to read and write about. Before…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Vignettes, Essays, Scores
Nayman, Samuel J.; Elias, Maurice J.; Selby, Edward A.; Fishman, Daniel B.; Linsky, Arielle C. V.; Hatchimonji, Danielle R. – Journal of Character Education, 2019
Despite the intuitive appeal of purpose as a subject of inquiry and its associations with positive life outcomes, empirical research on adolescent purpose is limited. This exploratory study examined several dimensions of purpose--classification, engagement, and commitment--based on essay and survey responses from a sample of 124 low-SES and…
Descriptors: Ethnic Groups, Socioeconomic Status, Urban Schools, Grade 7
Midgette, Ekaterina; Haria, Priti – Reading Psychology, 2016
The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of two comprehensive argumentative writing interventions--Text Structure Instruction (TSI) and Text Structure Revision Instruction (TSRI)--on the eighth-grade students' ability to compose convincing essays that include structural elements of argumentative discourse. Both treatment groups…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Text Structure, Writing Instruction
Ferster, Bill; Hammond, Thomas C.; Alexander, R. Curby; Lyman, Hunt – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2012
The hurried pace of the modern classroom does not permit formative feedback on writing assignments at the frequency or quality recommended by the research literature. One solution for increasing individual feedback to students is to incorporate some form of computer-generated assessment. This study explores the use of automated assessment of…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Scripts, Formative Evaluation, Essays
Download full textGrimes, Douglas; Warschauer, Mark – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2010
Automated writing evaluation (AWE) software uses artificial intelligence (AI) to score student essays and support revision. We studied how an AWE program called MY Access![R] was used in eight middle schools in Southern California over a three-year period. Although many teachers and students considered automated scoring unreliable, and teachers'…
Descriptors: Automation, Writing Evaluation, Essays, Artificial Intelligence
