This paper presents an investigation of score prediction for the Organization dimension of an assessment of analytical writing in response to text. With the long-term goal of producing feedback for students and teachers, we designed a task-dependent model that aligns with the scoring rubric and makes use of the source material. Our experimental results show that our rubric-based model performs ...

This paper continues, elaborates, and extends parts of one which has been accepted to appear as a long archival paper and presentation at the 2007 Annual Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2007. The conference paper title is “Sustainable Interaction Design: Invention & Di...

In education, examining students' learning in detail, determining their strengths and weaknesses giving effective feedback have gained importance over time. The aim of this study is to determine the distribution students’ answers reading comprehension achievement test items which were written at different cognitive levels investigate affective variables that are classifying students based on in...

Purpose: Creativity and technology are essential components of education the future around world. Developing students' creative thinking skills their relationship with is among main objectives both 21st century education. This study, which based on between digital technologies artistic creativity, aims to develop an analytical rubric evaluate 11th grade creativity that emerges use mobile design...

Student involvement in their own assessment can add reflection and metacognition to the learning process. Based on this idea, an assessment instrument was developed to self-assess college students’ mathematical problem solving tasks. The main objective of this exercise is to improve student learning. The assessment instrument contains three items: student opinion questionnaire, an analytic eval...

Abstract Summary writing is essential for academic success, and has attracted renewed interest in research large-scale language test. However, less attention been paid to the development evaluation of scoring scales summary writing. This study reports on validation a rubric that represented an approach scale with limited resources out consideration practicality. Participants were 83 students th...

Online courses have many components and dimensions. Both the form (structure) and the content (expression) are situated in an overall environment. The sum of these elements results in student outcomes and learning. In order to facilitate construction and evaluate the quality of an online course, a four-part rubric was designed to reflect: Structure (Context, Organization, and Environment) Conte...

BACKGROUND Large scale models of interprofessional learning (IPL) where outcomes are assessed are rare within health professional curricula. To date, there is sparse research describing robust assessment strategies to support such activities. We describe the development of an IPL assessment task based on peer rating of a student generated video evidencing collaborative interprofessional practic...

PROBLEM As medical students become residents, teaching becomes an expected and integral responsibility. Yet, training-for-teaching opportunities are lacking. In 2014, the authors designed a pilot study using rubric-guided, focused, personalized coaching sessions and video-recorded presentations to improve student teaching skills among fourth-year students at Harvard Medical School. APPROACH I...

The main objective of this study is to determine the knowledge, education and attitudes of Chinese, Indian and Arab speaking students in Australia towards the International English Language Testing System (IELTS) test. A questionnaire was administered to 200 students at six university language centers to investigate their overall response towards the four components of the IELTS test i.e. liste...