Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom
In the process of introducing any system into the classroom context, the teachers’ acceptance and expectation are the prerequisite for its success because teachers are the ones who implement the system. They are the driving forces that ensure the system takes place, works and serves its purposes....
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| description | In the process of introducing any system into the classroom context, the teachers’
acceptance and expectation are the prerequisite for its success because teachers
are the ones who implement the system. They are the driving forces that ensure the
system takes place, works and serves its purposes. This study aimed at determining
teachers’ acceptance and expectation on the introduction of an automated
networked-based essay scorer that provides immediate feedback in terms of score
and remarks as a whole and even at the paragraph level called the Automated Essay
Scoring Feedback (AESF). A total of eight experienced MUET teachers were
selected to be interviewed. The qualitative findings were analysed, coded and
trended. The findings indicates that essay writing is the most underdeveloped skills. It
is very demanding on the students and is definitely the most laborious task for the
teachers who guide, assess, respond and document their student’s writing. The
proposal of a home-grown and networked AESF was positively accepted by the
teachers despite some who were unsure about its ability in mimicking human raters
and other possible concerns such as the lack of computer resources, technical
support and proper training for teachers and students. The findings of this study
provided some practical considerations towards the design and development of
AESF that include the need for immediacy, ease of use, usefulness, reliability and
validity. The AESF is an innovative solution that assist the most challenging language
teachers’ task; essay marking. Being home-grown, AESF can overcome a
fundamental drawback of commercially available Automated Essay Scorer (AES),
namely cultural-sensitivity and validity. |
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| spelling | unimas-84512022-01-04T01:35:44Z http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8451/ Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom Ng, Sing Yii Hong, Kian Sam Lee, Nung Kion Bong, Chih How L Education (General) In the process of introducing any system into the classroom context, the teachers’ acceptance and expectation are the prerequisite for its success because teachers are the ones who implement the system. They are the driving forces that ensure the system takes place, works and serves its purposes. This study aimed at determining teachers’ acceptance and expectation on the introduction of an automated networked-based essay scorer that provides immediate feedback in terms of score and remarks as a whole and even at the paragraph level called the Automated Essay Scoring Feedback (AESF). A total of eight experienced MUET teachers were selected to be interviewed. The qualitative findings were analysed, coded and trended. The findings indicates that essay writing is the most underdeveloped skills. It is very demanding on the students and is definitely the most laborious task for the teachers who guide, assess, respond and document their student’s writing. The proposal of a home-grown and networked AESF was positively accepted by the teachers despite some who were unsure about its ability in mimicking human raters and other possible concerns such as the lack of computer resources, technical support and proper training for teachers and students. The findings of this study provided some practical considerations towards the design and development of AESF that include the need for immediacy, ease of use, usefulness, reliability and validity. The AESF is an innovative solution that assist the most challenging language teachers’ task; essay marking. Being home-grown, AESF can overcome a fundamental drawback of commercially available Automated Essay Scorer (AES), namely cultural-sensitivity and validity. 2015 Proceeding NonPeerReviewed text en http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/8451/1/Ng%20Sing%20Yii.pdf Ng, Sing Yii and Hong, Kian Sam and Lee, Nung Kion and Bong, Chih How (2015) Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom. In: 24th MELTA International Conference, The Royale Chulan, Kuala Lumpur. http://www.researchgate.net/publication/277909156_Teachers_Expectation_and_Acceptance_of_a_Home-grown_Networked_Automated_Essay_Scorer_with_Feedback_%28AESF%29_for_the_Malaysian_University_English_Test_%28MUET%29_Classroom |
| spellingShingle | L Education (General) Ng, Sing Yii Hong, Kian Sam Lee, Nung Kion Bong, Chih How Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom |
| title | Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown
Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the
Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom |
| title_full | Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown
Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the
Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom |
| title_fullStr | Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown
Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the
Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom |
| title_full_unstemmed | Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown
Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the
Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom |
| title_short | Teachers’ Expectation and Acceptance of a Home-grown
Networked Automated Essay Scorer with Feedback (AESF) for the
Malaysian University English Test (MUET) Classroom |
| title_sort | teachers’ expectation and acceptance of a home-grown
networked automated essay scorer with feedback (aesf) for the
malaysian university english test (muet) classroom |
| topic | L Education (General) |
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