This paper addresses the ongoing discussion on influencing factors of automatic essay scoring with latent semantic analysis (LSA). Throughout this paper, we contribute to this discussion by presenting evidence for the effects of the parameters text pre-processing, weighting, singular value dimensionality and type of similarity measure on the scoring results. We benchmark this effectiveness by c...

Pepple DJ, Young LE, Carroll RG. A comparison of student performance in multiple-choice and long essay questions in the MBBS stage I physiology examination at the University of the West Indies (Mona Campus). Adv Physiol Educ 34: 86–89, 2010; doi: 10.1152/advan.00087.2009.—This retrospective study compared the performance of preclinical medical students in the multiple-choice question (MCQ) and ...

A " hot topic " in educational measurement is the area of computerized essay test evaluation. As essays have been incorporated into many of the standardized testing programs, and computerized testing is being implemented in more and more instances, there are many instances of where computers have evaluated the essay portion of standardized tests. In an environment where humans typically evaluat...

Frank and colleagues for the Alberta Bone and Joint Health Institute are the highest-ranking winners of the 2009–2010 CIHR/CMAJ competition for the Top Achievements in Health Research. Dr. Devereaux and colleagues describe the POISE trial in the following essay. Dr. Hull’s essay, the essay by Dr. Frank and colleagues, and synopses of the other three winning achievements are available at www.cma...

The study sets out to examine the achievements Junior Secondary Schools students in essay writing in French using activity based and lecture methods. It adopts the quasi experimental research design. A French achieving test for junior secondary school III was used for data collection, it was analysed using mean, standard deviation and analysis of covariance. It eventually comes out with the vie...

I declare that this essay is work done as part of the Part III Examination. I have read and understood the Statement on Plagiarism for Part III and Graduate Courses issued by the Faculty of Mathematics, and have abided by it. This essay is the result of my own work, and except where explicitly stated otherwise, only includes material undertaken since the publication of the list of essay titles,...

Grammatical error detection and automated essay scoring are two tasks in the area of automated assessment. Traditionally these tasks have been treated independently with different machine learning models and features used for each task. In this paper, we develop a multi-task neural network model that jointly optimises for both tasks, and in particular we show that neural automated essay scoring...