Campus Units
English
Document Type
Article
Publication Version
Submitted Manuscript
Publication Date
2015
Journal or Book Title
Writing and Pedagogy
Volume
6
First Page
1
Last Page
29
Abstract
This article aims to engage specialists in writing pedagogy, assessment, genre study, and educational technologies in a constructive dialog and joint exploration of automated writing analysis as a potent instantiation of computer-enhanced assessment for learning. It recounts the values of writing pedagogy and, from this perspective, examines legitimate concerns with automated writing analysis. Emphasis is placed on the need to substantiate the construct-driven debate with systematic empirical evidence that would corroborate or refute interpretations, uses, and consequences of automated scoring and feedback tools intended for specific contexts. Such evidence can be obtained by adopting a validity argument framework. To demonstrate an application of this framework, the article presents a novel genre-based approach to automated analysis configured to support research writing and provides examples of validity evidence for using it with novice scholarly writers.
Copyright Owner
Equinox Publishing
Copyright Date
2015
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Cotos, Elena, "Automated Writing Analysis for writing pedagogy: From healthy tension to tangible prospects" (2015). English Publications. 63.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/engl_pubs/63
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Comments
This is a manuscript of an article from Writing and Pedagogy 6 (2015). Posted with permission.