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McCaffrey, Daniel; Holtzman, Steven; Burstein, Jill; Beigman Klebanov, Beata – Grantee Submission, 2021
Low retention rates in college is a policy concern for US postsecondary institutions, and writing is a critical competency for college (Graham, 2019). This paper describes an exploratory writing analytics study at six 4-year universities aimed at gaining insights about the relationship between college retention and writing. Findings suggest that…
Descriptors: College Students, School Holding Power, Writing Ability, Writing Evaluation
Roscoe, Rod D.; Allen, Laura K.; Johnson, Adam C.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
This study evaluates high school students' perceptions of automated writing feedback, and the influence of these perceptions on revising, as a function of varying modes of computer-based writing instruction. Findings indicate that students' perceptions of automated feedback accuracy, ease of use, relevance, and understandability were favorable.…
Descriptors: High School Students, Student Attitudes, Writing Evaluation, Feedback (Response)
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Allen, Laura K.; Perret, Cecile; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
The relationship between working memory capacity and writing ability was examined via a linguistic analysis of student essays. Undergraduate students (n = 108) wrote timed, prompt-based essays and completed a battery of cognitive assessments. The surface- and discourse-level linguistic features of students' essays were then analyzed using natural…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Writing (Composition), Short Term Memory, Writing Ability