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What measures do we need to build an electronic monitoring tool for postgraduate tutor marked assignments?
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posted on 2006-05-24, 15:06 authored by Emanuela Moreale, Denise Whitelock, Yvonne Raw, Stuart WattThis paper reports the findings from a preliminary study, which set out to test
a number of metrics and heuristics that will form the basis of an electronic
monitoring system for postgraduate level assignments. Such a (web-based)
system would augment the University’s electronic ‘Tutor Marked Assignment’
(e-TMA) infrastructure with new services. These services would support
tutors, monitors, and students as they learn to grade and write essays and
reports.
This study has illustrated that some readability measures can act as excellent
diagnostics, such as picking up over-length essays, but that sentence length
is not a good one because of problems concerning the complexity and style of
the text. Other heuristics such as ‘indicators of analytical thinking’ formed
promising measures that could be included in our system.
Overall this study has provided some benchmark metrics to begin to construct
a monitoring system that will include both readability metrics and content
heuristics from both tutors and students.
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MOREALE et al, 2002. What Measures do we Need to Build an Electronic Monitoring Tool for Postgraduate Tutor Marked Assignments? IN: Proceedings of the 6th CAA Conference, Loughborough: Loughborough UniversityPublisher
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This is a conference paper.Language
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