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Computer-Generated Feedback on Student Writing
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Ware, Paige – TESOL Quarterly: A Journal for Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages and of Standard English as a Second Dialect, 2011
A distinction must be made between "computer-generated scoring" and "computer-generated feedback". Computer-generated scoring refers to the provision of automated scores derived from mathematical models built on organizational, syntactic, and mechanical aspects of writing. In contrast, computer-generated feedback, the focus of this article, refers…
Descriptors: College Students, Writing Instruction, Writing Evaluation, Scoring
Analyzing Learner Language: Towards a Flexible Natural Language Processing Architecture for Intelligent Language Tutors
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Amaral, Luiz; Meurers, Detmar; Ziai, Ramon – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2011
Intelligent language tutoring systems (ILTS) typically analyze learner input to diagnose learner language properties and provide individualized feedback. Despite a long history of ILTS research, such systems are virtually absent from real-life foreign language teaching (FLT). Taking a step toward more closely linking ILTS research to real-life…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Information Management
Software: Evaluations and Decisions.
Kamil, Michael L. – Computers, Reading and Language Arts, 1984
Discusses the importance of two criteria often neglected on software evaluation forms: (1) the match between the instructor's objectives for a class and the objectives of the computer program and (2) the ease of transfer of the skills learned in the program to other situations. (AEA)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Evaluation, Evaluation Criteria, Teacher Response
Computerized Teachers' Praise: Incorporating Teachers' Images and Voices.
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Wu, Yi-Cheng – 1992
This paper provides an idea of how to improve computer-assisted instruction effectiveness by incorporating teachers' images and voices into computers. Efforts to increase students' motivations by improving computer-assisted instruction feedback systems through the use of arcade-style video games and animation have proven to be ineffective and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Elementary Education, Elementary School Teachers
Behaviorism Evolves.
Cook, Donald A. – Educational Technology, 1993
Reviews basic ideas presented in this special issue on the evolution of behaviorism. Topics addressed include stimulus and response; research with animals; applications to education and training; human motivation; theory through computer programs; experimental analysis of behavior; behaviorism moving into other disciplines; cognitive…
Descriptors: Behavioral Science Research, Behaviorism, Cognitive Processes, Computer Software
Confessions of a Tenure-Track Professor: I Was Addicted to Speed.
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O'Weary, Timothy – Teaching English in the Two-Year College, 1987
Proposes the use of a computer program called "Slo-Write" that slows word processing down to one character every five seconds for use by word processing burnouts. (NKA)
Descriptors: Computer Software, Professional Development, Publish or Perish Issue, Stress Variables
The Microcomputer as a Classroom Audio Visual Device: The Concept and Prospects for Adoption.
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Hativa, Nira – Computers and Education, 1986
Discusses attributes of the microcomputer that give it advantages over other types of media equipment for large-group classroom instruction and factors contributing to teacher adoption of technology. The discussion is based on the research literature and on statistical analysis of a questionnaire answered by teachers. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Audiovisual Aids, Computer Software, Equipment Evaluation