Title :
Glosser: Enhanced Feedback for Student Writing Tasks
Author :
Villalon, Jose ; Kearney, Paul ; Calvo, Rafael A. ; Reimann, Peter
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Elec. & Inf. Eng, Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
Abstract :
We describe Glosser, a system that supports students in writing essays by 1) scaffolding their reflection with trigger questions, and 2) using text mining techniques to provide content clues that can help answer those questions. A comparison with other computer generated feedback and scorings systems is provided to explain the novelty of the approach. We evaluate the system with Wiki pages produced by postgraduate students as part of their assessment.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; data mining; Glosser; computer generated feedback; student writing tasks; text mining technique; Computer science education; Costs; Feedback; Process design; Reflection; Software tools; Taxonomy; Technical drawing; Text mining; Writing; latent semantic analysis; reflection; student feedback; text mining;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies, 2008. ICALT '08. Eighth IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Santander, Cantabria
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3167-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2008.78
