Spelling errors occur frequently in educational settings, but their influence on automatic scoring is largely unknown. We therefore investigate the influence of spelling errors on content scoring performance using the example of the short answer data set of the Automated Student Assessment Prize (ASAP). We conduct an annotation study on the nature of spelling errors in the ASAP dataset and util...

BACKGROUND Single case studies are a valuable means of providing information about the outcomes of speech and language intervention. Many previous studies have used phonological analysis as a theoretical basis, while others have used psycholinguistic models. The present study combines these approaches to assessment, intervention and evaluation of outcomes. AIMS The aim of the research was to ...

BACKGROUND A recent study showed improved performance of the P300-speller when the flashing row or column was overlaid with translucent pictures of familiar faces (FF spelling paradigm). However, the performance of the P300-speller is not yet satisfactory due to its low classification accuracy and information transfer rate. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether P300-speller performance is further ...

The paper deals with the study of features forming skills meaningful reading professional-oriented texts in a non-linguistic university. Within framework study, essence process, linguistic difficulties university are considered, and main methods overcoming described. purpose work is to determine ways caused presence following tasks as: consider university, describe It established that one recep...

The purpose of this study was to investigate whether an approach to developing word lists centred on etymological roots would improve the spelling performance of older primary school students. Participants were 46 students in the last year of primary school in south-east Queensland (31 girls and 15 boys) across three classes, with two classes being assigned to control conditions. Students were ...

In this study we employed a novel technique to examine the neural basis of written spelling by having subjects touch-type single words on an fMRI compatible QWERTY keyboard. Additionally, in the same group of participants we determined if task-related signal changes associated with typed spelling were also co-localized with or separate from those for reading. Of particular interest were the lef...