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Crossley, Scott; Allen, Laura K.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study investigates a new approach to automatically assessing essay quality that combines traditional approaches based on assessing textual features with new approaches that measure student attributes such as demographic information, standardized test scores, and survey results. The results demonstrate that combining both text features and…
Descriptors: Automation, Scoring, Essays, Evaluation Methods
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Crossley, Scott A.; Varner, Laura K.; Roscoe, Rod D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2013
We present an evaluation of the Writing Pal (W-Pal) intelligent tutoring system (ITS) and the W-Pal automated writing evaluation (AWE) system through the use of computational indices related to text cohesion. Sixty-four students participated in this study. Each student was assigned to either the W-Pal ITS condition or the W-Pal AWE condition. The…
Descriptors: Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Writing Assignments