One of the main issues in the field of information retrieval is to bridge the terminological gap existing between the way in which users specify their information needs and the way in which queries are expressed. One of the approaches for this purpose, called Rule Based Information Retrieval by Computer (RUBRIC), involves the use of production rules to capture user query concepts (or topics). I...

<p style="text-align: justify;">The objective of this study with first- and second-year undergraduate Thai English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students (N = 813) was to explore the relationships among writing performance, self-efficacy, anxiety. The wrote an opinion-essay by hand completed self-efficacy anxiety questionnaires. Their texts were evaluated EFL instructors using analytic rubr...

The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of the on-line performance assessment instrument--the Assessment of Motor and Process Skills (AMPS). Issues that will be addressed in the paper include: (a) the establishment of the scoring rubric and its implementation in an extended Rasch model, (b) training of raters, (c) validation of the scoring rubric and procedures for monitoring ...

To help guide design and development of embodied conversational agents, this study reviews the evolving qualities of naturalistic agents by identifying and tracking their most relevant features. The study extends prior taxonomies of characteristics of ECAs, developing a rubric that distinguishes agents’ visual and functional characteristics. The study applies the rubric to 15 agents representin...

Despite itsubiquity asthewaythat instructors represent their views on teaching andlearning, the statement of teachingphilosophy can be afrustrating document to write and theresults are often uneven. This chapter describes a rubric created at the University ofMichigan's Center forResearch onLearning andTeaching to help faculty andgraduate students craft teaching statements. We describe theresear...

Academic librarians seeking to assess information literacy skills often focus on testing as a primary means of evaluation. Educators have long recognized the limitations of tests, and these limitations cause many educators to prefer rubric assessment to test-based approaches to evaluation. In contrast, many academic librarians are unfamiliar with the benefits of rubrics. Those librarians who ha...

This paper presents an investigation of score prediction for the Organization dimension of an assessment of analytical writing in response to text. With the long-term goal of producing feedback for students and teachers, we designed a task-dependent model that aligns with the scoring rubric and makes use of the source material. Our experimental results show that our rubric-based model performs ...