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Kathryn S. McCarthy; Rod D. Roscoe; Laura K. Allen; Aaron D. Likens; Danielle S. McNamara – Grantee Submission, 2022
The benefits of writing strategy feedback are well established. This study examined the extent to which adding spelling and grammar checkers support writing and revision in comparison to providing writing strategy feedback alone. High school students (n = 119) wrote and revised six persuasive essays in Writing Pal, an automated writing evaluation…
Descriptors: High School Students, Automation, Writing Evaluation, Computer Software
McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Roscoe, Rod D.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study investigated the effect of incorporating spelling and grammar checking tools within an automated writing tutoring system, Writing Pal. High school students (n = 119) wrote and revised six persuasive essays. After initial drafts, all students received formative feedback about writing strategies. Half of the participants were also given…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grammar, Automation, Writing Instruction
Anderson, Ross C.; Chaparro, Erin A.; Smolkowski, Keith; Cameron, Rachel – Grantee Submission, 2023
Though argumentative writing is a vital skill across diverse content areas and domains, most U.S. students perform below grade level in writing, and teachers are often unprepared to address this shortfall because their training approaches writing as a subspecialty of reading rather than its own unique discipline. Writing instruction and assessment…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Formative Evaluation, Writing Evaluation, Scoring Rubrics
Allen, Laura; Crossley, Scott; Kyle, Kris; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2014
The current study examined relationships between expert human judgments of text quality and grammar and mechanical errors in student writing. A corpus of essays (N = 100) written by high school students in the W-Pal system was collected, coded for grammar and mechanical errors, and scored by expert human raters. Results revealed weak relations…
Descriptors: Grammar, Writing Evaluation, Writing Instruction, Essays
Allen, Laura K.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
The assessment of writing proficiency generally includes analyses of the specific linguistic and rhetorical features contained in the singular essays produced by students. However, researchers have recently proposed that an individual's ability to flexibly adapt the linguistic properties of their writing might more closely capture writing skill.…
Descriptors: Writing Evaluation, Writing Tests, Computer Assisted Testing, Writing Skills
Allen, Laura K.; Likens, Aaron D.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
The assessment of argumentative writing generally includes analyses of the specific linguistic and rhetorical features contained in the individual essays produced by students. However, researchers have recently proposed that an individual's ability to flexibly adapt the linguistic properties of their writing may more accurately capture their…
Descriptors: Writing (Composition), Persuasive Discourse, Essays, Language Usage
Sterett H. Mercer; Joanna E. Cannon – Grantee Submission, 2022
We evaluated the validity of an automated approach to learning progress assessment (aLPA) for English written expression. Participants (n = 105) were students in Grades 2-12 who had parent-identified learning difficulties and received academic tutoring through a community-based organization. Participants completed narrative writing samples in the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Secondary School Students, Learning Problems, Learning Disabilities