Assessing Writing
January 2013 Volume 18, Number 1
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 6
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On the Relation between Automated Essay Scoring and Modern Views of the Writing Construct
Paul Deane
This paper examines the construct measured by automated essay scoring (AES) systems. AES systems measure features of the text structure, linguistic structure, and conventional print form of essays;... More
pp. 7-24
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Automated Essay Scoring: Psychometric Guidelines and Practices
Chaitanya Ramineni & David M. Williamson
In this paper, we provide an overview of psychometric procedures and guidelines Educational Testing Service (ETS) uses to evaluate automated essay scoring for operational use. We briefly describe... More
pp. 25-39
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Validating Automated Essay Scoring for Online Writing Placement
Chaitanya Ramineni
In this paper, I describe the design and evaluation of automated essay scoring (AES) models for an institution's writing placement program. Information was gathered on admitted student writing... More
pp. 40-61
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Automated Scoring in Context: Rapid Assessment for Placed Students
Andrew Klobucar, Norbert Elliot, Perry Deess, Oleksandr Rudniy & Kamal Joshi
This study investigated the use of automated essay scoring (AES) to identify at-risk students enrolled in a first-year university writing course. An application of AES, the "Criterion"[R] Online... More
pp. 62-84
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English Language Learners and Automated Scoring of Essays: Critical Considerations
Sara Cushing Weigle
This article presents considerations for using automated scoring systems to evaluate second language writing. A distinction is made between English language learners in English-medium educational... More
pp. 85-99
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Large-Scale Assessment, Locally-Developed Measures, and Automated Scoring of Essays: Fishing for Red Herrings?
William Condon
Automated Essay Scoring (AES) has garnered a great deal of attention from the rhetoric and composition/writing studies community since the Educational Testing Service began using e-rater[R] and the... More
pp. 100-108