2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The study on the possibility of the use of automated writing assessment for English writing evaluation and its educational applications
Project/Area Number |
19520512
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Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
Section | 一般 |
Research Field |
Foreign language education
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Research Institution | Tokai University |
Principal Investigator |
MATSUMOTO Kahoko Tokai University, 外国語教育センター, 教授 (30349427)
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Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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Keywords | 英語ライティング研究 / 自動採点システム / 授業モデル / 教師の負担の軽減 / フィードバック機能 / 評価基準 / 学習者の自律性 |
Research Abstract |
The teaching (classroom) models that incorporate the use of automated writing assessment system were constructed and evaluated for their effectiveness in terms of student improvements. These models are designed for to allow teachers to direct their resources to more important areas such as content, organization and logical development by leaving the feedback-giving for local areas (grammar, expressions, etc.) to the automated writing assessment software. While testing the efficacy of the software itself, the study obtained almost similar student improvements using the models as compared to regular writing classes. Also, it was found that different models match different types of students, so the maximization of the effects of each model was done based on the data.
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