Automated Essay Scoring

Author : Mark D. Shermis,Jill C. Burstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135643607

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Automated Essay Scoring by Mark D. Shermis,Jill C. Burstein Pdf

This new volume is the first to focus entirely on automated essay scoring and evaluation. It is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and state-of-the-art of automated essay scoring and evaluation technology across several disciplines, including education, testing and measurement, cognitive science, computer science, and computational linguistics. The development of this technology has led to many questions and concerns. Automated Essay Scoring attempts to address some of these questions including: *How can automated scoring and evaluation supplement classroom instruction? *How does the technology actually work? *Can it improve students' writing? *How reliable is the technology? *How can these computing methods be used to develop evaluation tools? *What are the state-of the-art essay evaluation technologies and automated scoring systems? Divided into four parts, the first part reviews the teaching of writing and how computers can contribute to it. Part II analyzes actual automated essay scorers including e-raterTM, Intellimetric, and the Intelligent Essay Assessor. The third part analyzes related psychometric issues, and the final part reviews innovations in the field. This book is ideal for researchers and advanced students interested in automated essay scoring from the fields of testing and measurement, education, cognitive science, language, and computational linguistics.

Author : Beata Beigman Klebanov,Nitin Madnani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783031021824

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Automated Essay Scoring by Beata Beigman Klebanov,Nitin Madnani Pdf

This book discusses the state of the art of automated essay scoring, its challenges and its potential. One of the earliest applications of artificial intelligence to language data (along with machine translation and speech recognition), automated essay scoring has evolved to become both a revenue-generating industry and a vast field of research, with many subfields and connections to other NLP tasks. In this book, we review the developments in this field against the backdrop of Elias Page's seminal 1966 paper titled "The Imminence of Grading Essays by Computer." Part 1 establishes what automated essay scoring is about, why it exists, where the technology stands, and what are some of the main issues. In Part 2, the book presents guided exercises to illustrate how one would go about building and evaluating a simple automated scoring system, while Part 3 offers readers a survey of the literature on different types of scoring models, the aspects of essay quality studied in prior research, and the implementation and evaluation of a scoring engine. Part 4 offers a broader view of the field inclusive of some neighboring areas, and Part \ref{part5} closes with summary and discussion. This book grew out of a week-long course on automated evaluation of language production at the North American Summer School for Logic, Language, and Information (NASSLLI), attended by advanced undergraduates and early-stage graduate students from a variety of disciplines. Teachers of natural language processing, in particular, will find that the book offers a useful foundation for a supplemental module on automated scoring. Professionals and students in linguistics, applied linguistics, educational technology, and other related disciplines will also find the material here useful.

Author : Susan Phillips
Publisher : SAEE
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Educational tests and measurements
ISBN : 9780973775570

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Automated Essay Scoring by Susan Phillips Pdf

The purpose of this review is to describe the technical state of the art in the field of scoring or grading of essays using computer technology; outline past and emergent practices and the pedagogical implications; summarize existing research; direct readers to more specific reference materials; provide a framework/blueprint for thinking about possible risks and potential in this field; and suggest directions for further research and development.

Author : Mark D. Shermis,Jill Burstein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136334795

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Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation by Mark D. Shermis,Jill Burstein Pdf

This comprehensive, interdisciplinary handbook reviews the latest methods and technologies used in automated essay evaluation (AEE) methods and technologies. Highlights include the latest in the evaluation of performance-based writing assessments and recent advances in the teaching of writing, language testing, cognitive psychology, and computational linguistics. This greatly expanded follow-up to Automated Essay Scoring reflects the numerous advances that have taken place in the field since 2003 including automated essay scoring and diagnostic feedback. Each chapter features a common structure including an introduction and a conclusion. Ideas for diagnostic and evaluative feedback are sprinkled throughout the book. Highlights of the book’s coverage include: The latest research on automated essay evaluation. Descriptions of the major scoring engines including the E-rater®, the Intelligent Essay Assessor, the IntellimetricTM Engine, c-raterTM, and LightSIDE. Applications of the uses of the technology including a large scale system used in West Virginia. A systematic framework for evaluating research and technological results. Descriptions of AEE methods that can be replicated for languages other than English as seen in the example from China. Chapters from key researchers in the field. The book opens with an introduction to AEEs and a review of the "best practices" of teaching writing along with tips on the use of automated analysis in the classroom. Next the book highlights the capabilities and applications of several scoring engines including the E-rater®, the Intelligent Essay Assessor, the IntellimetricTM engine, c-raterTM, and LightSIDE. Here readers will find an actual application of the use of an AEE in West Virginia, psychometric issues related to AEEs such as validity, reliability, and scaling, and the use of automated scoring to detect reader drift, grammatical errors, discourse coherence quality, and the impact of human rating on AEEs. A review of the cognitive foundations underlying methods used in AEE is also provided. The book concludes with a comparison of the various AEE systems and speculation about the future of the field in light of current educational policy. Ideal for educators, professionals, curriculum specialists, and administrators responsible for developing writing programs or distance learning curricula, those who teach using AEE technologies, policy makers, and researchers in education, writing, psychometrics, cognitive psychology, and computational linguistics, this book also serves as a reference for graduate courses on automated essay evaluation taught in education, computer science, language, linguistics, and cognitive psychology.

Author : Patricia Freitag Ericsson,Richard Haswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015062538106

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Machine Scoring of Student Essays by Patricia Freitag Ericsson,Richard Haswell Pdf

The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue—some would say excluded from it—while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. Machine Scoring of Student Essays is the first volume to seriously consider the educational mechanisms and consequences of this trend, and it offers important discussions from some of the leading scholars in writing assessment. Reading and evaluating student writing is a time-consuming process, yet it is a vital part of both student placement and coursework at post-secondary institutions. In recent years, commercial computer-evaluation programs have been developed to score student essays in both of these contexts. Two-year colleges have been especially drawn to these programs, but four-year institutions are moving to them as well, because of the cost-savings they promise. Unfortunately, to a large extent, the programs have been written, and institutions are installing them, without attention to their instructional validity or adequacy. Since the education software companies are moving so rapidly into what they perceive as a promising new market, a wider discussion of machine-scoring is vital if scholars hope to influence development and/or implementation of the programs being created. What is needed, then, is a critical resource to help teachers and administrators evaluate programs they might be considering, and to more fully envision the instructional consequences of adopting them. And this is the resource that Ericsson and Haswell are providing here.

Author : Randy Elliot Bennett,Anat Ben-Simon,Merkaz arzi livhinot ulhaarakha (Jerusalem)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Examinations
ISBN : 965502122X

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Toward Theoretically Meaningful Automated Essay Scoring by Randy Elliot Bennett,Anat Ben-Simon,Merkaz arzi livhinot ulhaarakha (Jerusalem) Pdf

Author : Duanli Yan,André A. Rupp,Peter W. Foltz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781351264792

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Handbook of Automated Scoring by Duanli Yan,André A. Rupp,Peter W. Foltz Pdf

"Automated scoring engines [...] require a careful balancing of the contributions of technology, NLP, psychometrics, artificial intelligence, and the learning sciences. The present handbook is evidence that the theories, methodologies, and underlying technology that surround automated scoring have reached maturity, and that there is a growing acceptance of these technologies among experts and the public." From the Foreword by Alina von Davier, ACTNext Senior Vice President Handbook of Automated Scoring: Theory into Practice provides a scientifically grounded overview of the key research efforts required to move automated scoring systems into operational practice. It examines the field of automated scoring from the viewpoint of related scientific fields serving as its foundation, the latest developments of computational methodologies utilized in automated scoring, and several large-scale real-world applications of automated scoring for complex learning and assessment systems. The book is organized into three parts that cover (1) theoretical foundations, (2) operational methodologies, and (3) practical illustrations, each with a commentary. In addition, the handbook includes an introduction and synthesis chapter as well as a cross-chapter glossary.

Author : Patricia Freitag Ericsson,Richard Haswell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Education
ISBN : UCSC:32106018441011

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Machine Scoring of Student Essays by Patricia Freitag Ericsson,Richard Haswell Pdf

The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue—some would say excluded from it—while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. Machine Scoring of Student Essays is the first volume to seriously consider the educational mechanisms and consequences of this trend, and it offers important discussions from some of the leading scholars in writing assessment. Reading and evaluating student writing is a time-consuming process, yet it is a vital part of both student placement and coursework at post-secondary institutions. In recent years, commercial computer-evaluation programs have been developed to score student essays in both of these contexts. Two-year colleges have been especially drawn to these programs, but four-year institutions are moving to them as well, because of the cost-savings they promise. Unfortunately, to a large extent, the programs have been written, and institutions are installing them, without attention to their instructional validity or adequacy. Since the education software companies are moving so rapidly into what they perceive as a promising new market, a wider discussion of machine-scoring is vital if scholars hope to influence development and/or implementation of the programs being created. What is needed, then, is a critical resource to help teachers and administrators evaluate programs they might be considering, and to more fully envision the instructional consequences of adopting them. And this is the resource that Ericsson and Haswell are providing here.

Author : Danielle S. McNamara,Arthur C. Graesser,Philip M. McCarthy,Zhiqiang Cai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780521192927

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Automated Evaluation of Text and Discourse with Coh-Metrix by Danielle S. McNamara,Arthur C. Graesser,Philip M. McCarthy,Zhiqiang Cai Pdf

This book describes Coh-Metrix, a powerful computational tool that provides a wide range of language and discourse measures.

Author : Khosrow-Pour D.B.A., Mehdi
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781799834779

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Handbook of Research on Modern Educational Technologies, Applications, and Management by Khosrow-Pour D.B.A., Mehdi Pdf

As technology and technological advancements become a more prevalent and essential aspect of daily and business life, educational institutions must keep pace in order to maintain relevance and retain their ability to adequately prepare students for their lives beyond education. Such institutions and their leaders are seeking relevant strategies for the implementation and effective use of new and upcoming technologies and leadership strategies to best serve students and educators within educational settings. As traditional education methods become more outdated, strategies to supplement and bolster them through technology and effective management become essential to the success of institutions and programs. The Handbook of Research on Modern Educational Technologies, Applications, and Management is an all-encompassing two-volume scholarly reference comprised of 58 original and previously unpublished research articles that provide cutting-edge, multidisciplinary research and expert insights on advancing technologies used in educational settings as well as current strategies for administrative and leadership roles in education. Covering a wide range of topics including but not limited to community engagement, educational games, data management, and mobile learning, this publication provides insights into technological advancements with educational applications and examines forthcoming implementation strategies. These strategies are ideal for teachers, instructional designers, curriculum developers, educational software developers, and information technology specialists looking to promote effective learning in the classroom through cutting-edge learning technologies, new learning theories, and successful leadership tactics. Administrators, educational leaders, educational policymakers, and other education professionals will also benefit from this publication by utilizing the extensive research on managing educational institutions and providing valuable training and professional development initiatives as well as implementing the latest administrative technologies. Additionally, academicians, researchers, and students in areas that include but are not limited to educational technology, academic leadership, mentorship, learning environments, and educational support systems will benefit from the extensive research compiled within this publication.

Author : Ido Roll,Danielle McNamara,Sergey Sosnovsky,Rose Luckin,Vania Dimitrova
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030782702

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Artificial Intelligence in Education by Ido Roll,Danielle McNamara,Sergey Sosnovsky,Rose Luckin,Vania Dimitrova Pdf

This two-volume set LNAI 12748 and 12749 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2021, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, in June 2021.* The 40 full papers presented together with 76 short papers, 2 panels papers, 4 industry papers, 4 doctoral consortium, and 6 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 209 submissions. The conference provides opportunities for the cross-fertilization of approaches, techniques and ideas from the many fields that comprise AIED, including computer science, cognitive and learning sciences, education, game design, psychology, sociology, linguistics as well as many domain-specific areas. ​*The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Author : Mark D. Shermis,Joshua Wilson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781040033241

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The Routledge International Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation by Mark D. Shermis,Joshua Wilson Pdf

The Routledge International Handbook of Automated Essay Evaluation (AEE) is a definitive guide at the intersection of automation, artificial intelligence, and education. This volume encapsulates the ongoing advancement of AEE, reflecting its application in both large-scale and classroom-based assessments to support teaching and learning endeavors. It presents a comprehensive overview of AEE's current applications, including its extension into reading, speech, mathematics, and writing research; modern automated feedback systems; critical issues in automated evaluation such as psychometrics, fairness, bias, transparency, and validity; and the technological innovations that fuel current and future developments in this field. As AEE approaches a tipping point of global implementation, this Handbook stands as an essential resource, advocating for the conscientious adoption of AEE tools to enhance educational practices ethically. The Handbook will benefit readers by equipping them with the knowledge to thoughtfully integrate AEE, thereby enriching educational assessment, teaching, and learning worldwide. Aimed at researchers, educators, AEE developers, and policymakers, the Handbook is poised not only to chart the current landscape but also to stimulate scholarly discourse, define and inform best practices, and propel and guide future innovations.

Author : Elvira Popescu,Tianyong Hao,Ting-Chia Hsu,Haoran Xie,Marco Temperini,Wei Chen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030387785

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Emerging Technologies for Education by Elvira Popescu,Tianyong Hao,Ting-Chia Hsu,Haoran Xie,Marco Temperini,Wei Chen Pdf

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Symposium, SETE 2019, held in conjunction with ICWL 2019, in Magdeburg, Germany, in September 2019. The 10 full and 6 short papers presented together with 24 papers from 5 workshops were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers cover the latest findings in various areas, such as: virtual reality and game-based learning; learning analytics; K-12 education; language learning; design, model and implementation of e-learning platforms and tools; digitalization and industry 4.0; pedagogical issues, practice and experience sharing.

Author : Bailey, Liston W.
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781522563624

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Educational Technology and the New World of Persistent Learning by Bailey, Liston W. Pdf

Technologies, such as artificial intelligence and augmented and mixed reality, continue to be implemented to support the process of teaching and learning. However, technological advances and new applications should not be seen as a replacement for the requisite consideration of proper needs analysis, instructional design, and educational philosophy within courses or training; rather it should serve as an enabler to allow faster and more open access to learning for individuals. Educational Technology and the New World of Persistent Learning provides innovative insights into technology integration methods within classroom settings including how they can empower students and how they can be used in the creation of dynamic learning experiences. The content within this publication examines e-learning, robotics, and tutoring systems and is designed for academicians, educators, principles, administrators, researchers, and students.

Author : Klaus Zechner,Keelan Evanini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781351676113

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Automated Speaking Assessment by Klaus Zechner,Keelan Evanini Pdf

Automated Speaking Assessment: Using Language Technologies to Score Spontaneous Speech provides a thorough overview of state-of-the-art automated speech scoring technology as it is currently used at Educational Testing Service (ETS). Its main focus is related to the automated scoring of spontaneous speech elicited by TOEFL iBT Speaking section items, but other applications of speech scoring, such as for more predictable spoken responses or responses provided in a dialogic setting, are also discussed. The book begins with an in-depth overview of the nascent field of automated speech scoring—its history, applications, and challenges—followed by a discussion of psychometric considerations for automated speech scoring. The second and third parts discuss the integral main components of an automated speech scoring system as well as the different types of automatically generated measures extracted by the system features related to evaluate the speaking construct of communicative competence as measured defined by the TOEFL iBT Speaking assessment. Finally, the last part of the book touches on more recent developments, such as providing more detailed feedback on test takers’ spoken responses using speech features and scoring of dialogic speech. It concludes with a discussion, summary, and outlook on future developments in this area. Written with minimal technical details for the benefit of non-experts, this book is an ideal resource for graduate students in courses on Language Testing and Assessment as well as teachers and researchers in applied linguistics.