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Using Writing Process and Product Features to Assess Writing Quality and Explore How Those Features Relate to Other Literacy Tasks AES NLP

Author(s):
Deane, Paul
Publication Year:
2014
Report Number:
RR-14-03
Source:
ETS Research Report
Document Type:
Report
Page Count:
23
Subject/Key Words:
Writing Assessment, Reading Assessment, Keystroke Log, e-rater, Automated Scoring of Writing Quality, Automated Scoring and Natural Language Processing

Abstract

The process factors are identified, corresponding to hesitancy behaviors, editing behaviors, and burst span (the extent to which text is produced in long bursts with only short internal pauses). The results suggest that writing process and product features have stable factor structures that generalize to predict writing quality, though there are some genre- or task-specific differences.

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