In three experiments, we compared the effectiveness of rainbow writing and retrieval practice, two common methods of spelling instruction. In experiment 1 (n=14), second graders completed 2 days of spelling practice, followed by spelling tests 1 day and 5 weeks later. A repeated measures analysis of variance demonstrated that spelling accuracy for words trained with retrieval practice was highe...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Barriers to publication can be overcome through a peer support writing group in an academic department of family practice. This study describes the experience and outcomes of a writing group in a family practice department. METHODS A writing group was established to provide collaboration in identifying potential research and/or writing projects, to assist individual ...

Automated scoring by means of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) has been introduced lately to improve the traditional human scoring system. The purposes of the present study were to develop a LSA-based assessment system to evaluate children’s Chinese sentence construction skills and to examine the effectiveness of LSA-based automated scoring function by comparing it with traditional human scoring....

Natural language processing and statistical methods were used to identify linguistic features associated with the quality of student-generated paragraphs. Linguistic features were assessed using Coh-Metrix. The resulting computational models demonstrated small to medium effect sizes for predicting paragraph quality: introduction quality r2 = .25, body quality r2 = .10, and conclusion quality r2...

This study focuses on the application of syntactic analysis in aspect sentence building children's fiction essays by slow learner students primary school Selangor and Putrajaya, Malaysia. The objectives this are: to analyze structure elements produced a selected sample; associate with ability sample writing from language point view; as well recommend teaching learning (PdP) strategies for stude...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service makes linguistic experimentation quick, easy, and inexpensive. However, researchers have not been certain about its reliability. In a series of experiments, this paper compares data collected via Mechanical Turk to those obtained using more traditional methods One set of experiments measured the predictability of words in sentences using the Cloze sentence compl...

As the chair of the editorial board of the Cumitech series, I have read with great interest the recent minireview, “Impact of Clinical Practice Guidelines on the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory,” by Dr. Peter H. Gilligan (1). I would like to call Dr. Gilligan’s attention to the Cumitech mission statement adopted in 2000, which states in part that “the purpose of the Cumitech series is to provi...

Writers usually need iterations of revisions and edits during their writings. To better understand the process of rewriting, we need to know what has changed between the revisions. Prior work mainly focuses on detecting corrections within sentences, which is at the level of words or phrases. This paper proposes to detect revision changes at the sentence level. Looking at revisions at a higher l...