ARABIC WRITING SKILLS: UITM MELAKA STUDENT WEAKNESS ANALYSIS

Computerized assessment of dental student writing skills.

This study tested the feasibility of using computer-based tools for the assessment of written materials produced by dental students. Written assignments produced by three consecutive incoming dental school classes (240 students) were assessed, and the performance among and between classes was analyzed. Computerized assessment of documents produced by students in the context of their regular cou...

Using Lexical Analysis Software to Assess Student Writing in Statistics

Cross-Cultural Analysis of Student Writing Beyond Discourses of Difference

Text analysis traditions in France and the United States include discourse analysis, critical linguistics, French functional linguistics, Bakhtinian dialogics, and “generous reading.” These frames have not been used, however, in crosscultural analysis of university student writing. The author presents a study of 250 student texts from French and U.S. introductory university courses, using a met...

Finite State Automata and Arabic Writing

Arabic writing has specific features, which imply computational overload for any arabicized software. Finite state automata are well known to give efficient solutions for translation problems which can be formalized as regular languages. These automata are as more easily built that their alphabet have been reduced through a careful linguistic analysis. This reduction makes it possible to write ...

Writing Analytics for Epistemic Features of Student Writing

Literacy, encompassing the ability to produce written outputs from the reading of multiple sources, is a key learning goal. Selecting information, and evaluating and integrating claims from potentially competing documents is a complex literacy task. Prior research exploring differing behaviours and their association to constructs such as epistemic cognition has used ‘multiple document processin...