The Research was aimed at finding out the effects of the implementation of writing feedback techniques and students’ writing anxiety on students’ writing ablity. Experimental method of 3x2 factorial design was employed in the research. There were three experimental groups of students who were taught by using teacher feedback, peer feedback and the combination of peer and teacher feedback writin...

This study seeks to investigate the effect of explicit and implicit corrective feedback on the narrative writing of advanced Iranian EFL learners. In so doing, the study was conducted with 76 advanced EFL learners from 3 intact classes at an English language teaching institute in Iran. The sample was selected from among 92 learners by means of Oxford Quick Placement Test. After the researchers ...

Performance appraisal (PA) is an important HR process to periodically measure and evaluate every employee’s performance vis-avis the goals established by the organization. A PA process involves purposeful multi-step multi-modal communication between employees, their supervisors and their peers, such as self-appraisal, supervisor assessment and peer feedback. Analysis of the structured data and ...

Many approaches have been proposed for providing feedback in academic writing, however, few of them are visually based. We describe a novel visualisation method for providing feedback to support formative essay assessment. The visualisation method makes use of text mining techniques to provide insight on the semantics of the topics in an essay. We propose that visualisation can be used to mitig...

We applied a PRF (Pseudo-Relevance Feedback) system, for both the monolingual task and the German(->English task. We focused on the effects of extracting a comparable corpus from the given newspaper data; our corpus doubled the average precision when used together with the provided parallel corpus. The PRF performance was lower for the queries with few relevant documents. We also examined the e...

Assessing national levels of happiness has become an important research and policy issue in recent years. We examined happiness and satisfaction in Ireland using phone text messaging to collect large-scale longitudinal data from 3,093 members of the general Irish population. For six consecutive weeks, participants' happiness and satisfaction levels were assessed. For four consecutive weeks (wee...

Transcriptional/post-translational feedback loops have dominated ideas about how circadian clocks are able to keep time. An entirely new level of feedback regulation -- post-transcriptional regulatory microRNAs -- has now been added to the circadian mix.

Select-a-Kibitzer is a computerized tool that gives feedback to students on their compositions in a unique way. The project is based on composition research which describes the process of writing as one of simultaneously solving multiple, possibly conflicting constraints. In Select-a-Kibitzer, each constraint is personified by a different character. A student enters a composition into the tool ...

TREC-9 evaluation experiments at the Justsystem site are described with a focus on “aboutness” based approach in text retrieval. Experiments on the effects of supplemental noun phrase indexing, pseudo-relevance feedback and reference database feedback in view of the effect of various length of queries are reported. The results show that pesudo-relevance feedback is always effective while refere...

CONTEXT The Reporter-Interpreter-Manager-Educator (RIME) evaluation framework is intuitive and reliable. Our preceptors' frustration with using summative tools for formative feedback and the hypothesis that the RIME vocabulary might improve students' and preceptors' experiences with feedback prompted us to develop and pilot a RIME-based feedback tool. METHODS The tool was based on the RIME vo...