Towards Evaluating Narrative Quality In Student Writing

Narrative medicine and narrative writing.

The dynamics of narrative writing in primary grade children: writing process factors predict story quality

In this study of third grade school children, we investigated the association between writing process measures recorded with key stroke logging and the final written product. Moreover, we examined the cognitive predictors of writing process and product measures. Analyses of key strokes showed that while most children spontaneously made local online revisions while writing, few revised previousl...

Writing Narrative Literature Reviews

Narrative literature reviews serve a vital scientific function, but few resources help people learn to write them. As compared with empirical reports, literature reviews can tackle broader and more abstract questions, can engage in more post hoc theorizing without the danger of capitalizing on chance, can make a stronger case for a null-hypothesis conclusion, and can appreciate and use methodol...

Evaluating Quality of Student-Written Tests

Software testing is important, but judging whether a set of software tests are effective is hard. The same problem also appears in the classroom as educators frequently include software testing activities in assignments. While tests can be hand-graded, some educators use objective performance metrics to assess software tests, just as professionals do. The most common measures used at present ar...

Exploring Individual Differences in Student Writing with a Narrative Composition Support Environment

Novice writers face significant challenges as they learn to master the broad range of skills that contribute to composition. Novice and expert writers differ considerably, and devising effective composition support tools for novice writers requires a clear understanding of the process and products of writing. This paper reports on a study conducted with more than one hundred middle grade studen...