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Allen, Laura K.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2016
A commonly held belief among educators, researchers, and students is that high-quality texts are easier to read than low-quality texts, as they contain more engaging narrative and story-like elements. Interestingly, these assumptions have typically failed to be supported by the literature on writing. Previous research suggests that higher quality…
Descriptors: Role, Writing (Composition), Natural Language Processing, Hypothesis Testing
Watanabe, Micah; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2023
Past research on knowledge has differentiated between dimensions (e.g., amount, accuracy, specificity, coherence) of knowledge. This paper introduces a novel dimension of knowledge, the Motivational Utility of Knowledge (MUK), that is based on fundamental human needs (e.g., physical safety, affiliation, actualization, reproduction). Adults in the…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Individual Needs, Knowledge Level, Prior Learning
Allen, Laura K.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2016
A commonly held belief among educators, researchers, and students is that high-quality texts are easier to read than low-quality texts, as they contain more engaging narrative and story-like elements. Interestingly, these assumptions have typically failed to be supported by the literature on writing. Previous research suggests that higher quality…
Descriptors: Role, Writing (Composition), Natural Language Processing, Hypothesis Testing
Flynn, Lauren E.; McNamara, Danielle S.; McCarthy, Kathryn S.; Magliano, Joseph P.; Allen, Laura K. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Successful text comprehension requires readers to engage in a number of coherence-building processes. This study examined how analyzing the cohesion of students 'constructed responses can be used to evaluate these coherence-building processes and the extent to which they vary across readers' individual differences and across types of texts. We…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Individual Differences, Protocol Analysis, Literary Genres
Roscoe, Rod D.; Allen, Laura K.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2019
A critical challenge for computer-based writing instruction is providing appropriate and adaptive practice. The current study examined three modes of computer-based writing practice with the goal of identifying those with the greatest learning and motivational value. High school students learned about writing strategies by studying lessons within…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Strategies
Roscoe, Rod D.; Allen, Laura K.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Grantee Submission, 2018
A critical challenge for computer-based writing instruction is providing appropriate and adaptive practice. The current study examined three modes of computer-based writing practice with the goal of identifying those with the greatest learning and motivational value. High school students learned about writing strategies by studying lessons within…
Descriptors: High School Students, Writing Instruction, Computer Assisted Instruction, Writing Strategies
McNamara, Danielle S.; Crossley, Scott A.; Roscoe, Rod D.; Allen, Laura K.; Dai, Jianmin – Grantee Submission, 2015
This study evaluates the use of a hierarchical classification approach to automated assessment of essays. Automated essay scoring (AES) generally relies onmachine learning techniques that compute essay scores using a set of text variables. Unlike previous studies that rely on regression models, this study computes essay scores using a hierarchical…
Descriptors: Automation, Scoring, Essays, Persuasive Discourse
Allen, Laura K.; Crossley, Scott A.; Snow, Erica L.; McNamara, Danielle S. – Language Learning & Technology, 2014
The Writing Pal (W-Pal) is an intelligent tutoring system (ITS) designed to provide students with explicit writing strategy instruction and practice. W-Pal includes a suite of educational games developed to increase writing engagement and provide opportunities to practice writing strategies. In this study, first (L1) (n = 26) and second (L2)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Writing Instruction, Educational Games