Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays

In this paper we discuss a simple but comprehensive form of feedback to essay authors, based on a thesaurus and computer graphics, which enables the essay authors to see where essay content is inadequate in terms of the discussion of the essay topic. Concepts which are inadequately covered are displ...

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Main Authors: Williams, Robert, Dreher, Heinz
Format: Journal Article
Published: The Informing Science Institute 2005
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Online Access:http://informingscience.org/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42010
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description In this paper we discuss a simple but comprehensive form of feedback to essay authors, based on a thesaurus and computer graphics, which enables the essay authors to see where essay content is inadequate in terms of the discussion of the essay topic. Concepts which are inadequately covered are displayed for the information of the author so that the essay can be improved. The feedback is automatically produced by the MarkIT Automated Essay Grading system, being developed by Curtin University researchers.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-420102017-01-30T14:56:50Z Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays Williams, Robert Dreher, Heinz MarkIT formative assessment Automated Essay Grading elearning automated assignment assessment graphical representation information systems visualisation assessment AEG In this paper we discuss a simple but comprehensive form of feedback to essay authors, based on a thesaurus and computer graphics, which enables the essay authors to see where essay content is inadequate in terms of the discussion of the essay topic. Concepts which are inadequately covered are displayed for the information of the author so that the essay can be improved. The feedback is automatically produced by the MarkIT Automated Essay Grading system, being developed by Curtin University researchers. 2005 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42010 http://informingscience.org/ The Informing Science Institute fulltext
spellingShingle MarkIT
formative assessment
Automated Essay Grading
elearning
automated assignment assessment
graphical representation
information systems
visualisation
assessment
AEG
Williams, Robert
Dreher, Heinz
Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays
title Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays
title_full Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays
title_fullStr Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays
title_full_unstemmed Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays
title_short Formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays
title_sort formative assessment visual feedback in computer graded essays
topic MarkIT
formative assessment
Automated Essay Grading
elearning
automated assignment assessment
graphical representation
information systems
visualisation
assessment
AEG
url http://informingscience.org/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42010