Using computers to monitor student performance in essay-writing

From Writing to Computers

We do not need to look far for signs of divided consciousness with regard to books and computers. For instance, the United Kingdom Data Protection Act 1984 gave British subjects some rights of access to computer-held information on themselves but not to paper records. From Writing to Computers takes as its central theme the issue of a unifying intellectual principle to connect books and compute...

Using Lexical Analysis Software to Assess Student Writing in Statistics

The end of handwriting? Using computers in traditional essay examinations

Most of our students complete most of their written assignments using a word processor, but they are still asked to handwrite responses in an examination. It could be argued that they have not practised this task and the validity of the assessment could thus be questioned. This paper explores the possibility of bringing computers into the traditional essay-examination context, describes an appr...

Using SCORM to monitor student performance: Experiences from secondary school practice

In recent years the mathematical community has been enriched with various computer programs that facilitate and improve the learning of mathematics. Although many practical and didactical problems still exist, computer aided learning has become a valuable addition to education. However, these successes also lead to high expectations of teachers and learners. For a teacher it would be nice if he...

Identifying science concepts and student misconceptions in an interactive essay writing tutor

We present initial steps towards an interactive essay writing tutor that improves science knowledge by analyzing student essays for misconceptions and recommending science webpages that help correct those misconceptions. We describe the five components in this system: identifying core science concepts, determining appropriate pedagogical sequences for the science concepts, identifying student m...