Handbook on automated essay evaluation : current applications and new directions / / edited by Mark D. Shermis, Jill Burstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910453022903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-12276-3; 1-299-48100-0; 1-136-33480-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (385 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): BursteinJill; ShermisMark D. <1953->
• Disciplina: 371.27/2
• Soggetti: Grading and marking (Students) - Data processing; Educational tests and measurements - Data processing; Report writing - Study and teaching - Evaluation; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; About the Editors; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction to Automated Essay Evaluation; 2 Automated Essay Evaluation and the Teaching of Writing; 3 English as a Second Language Writing and Automated Essay Evaluation; 4 The E-rater® Automated Essay Scoring System; 5 Implementation and Applications of the Intelligent Essay Assessor; 6 The IntelliMetricTM Automated Essay Scoring Engine - A Review and an Application to Chinese Essay Scoring; 7 Applications of Automated Essay Evaluation in West Virginia; 8 LightSIDE: Open Source Machine Learning for Text9 Automated Short Answer Scoring: Principles and Prospects; 10 Probable Cause: Developing Warrants for Automated Scoring of Essays; 11 Validity and Reliability of Automated Essay Scoring; 12 Scaling and Norming for Automated Essay Scoring; 13 Human Ratings and Automated Essay Evaluation; 14 Using Automated Scoring to Monitor Reader Performance and Detect Reader Drift in Essay Scoring; 15 Grammatical Error Detection in Automatic Essay Scoring and Feedback; 16 Automated ; Evaluation of Discourse Coherence Quality in Essay Writing; 17 Automated Sentiment Analysis for Essay Evaluation18 Covering the Construct: An Approach to Automated Essay Scoring Motivated by a Socio-Cognitive Framework for Defining Literacy Skills; 19 Contrasting State-of-the-Art Automated Scoring of Essays; 20 The Policy Turn in Current Education Reform: The Common Core State Standards and Its Linguistic Challenges and Opportunities; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 commo