Using Content Analysis of Written Text for a Formative Assessment of Open-Ended Questions and Essays
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Gabriela Aguilar, no afiliation to any institution, Mexico ; Kenji Kaijiri, Shinshu University, Japan
EdMedia + Innovate Learning, in Honolulu, HI, USA ISBN 978-1-880094-73-0 Publisher: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Waynesville, NC
Abstract
The present work introduces a proposal for a formative assessment of open-ended questions and essays using content analysis of written text. The proposed content analysis method is based on the idea that some written text such as an essay, open-ended question, etc. should include the answers of factual questions such as those of: what, how, why, etc. The formative assessment will be done through an automatic generation of factual questions about the points not included in the learners’ answers. When learners are answering open-ended questions or writing an essay, they may omit some information, even when they know the answer. Therefore, this proposal will help learners to improve the draft of a document and it will help them to gather a deeper understanding of the text that they are writing.
Citation
Aguilar, G. & Kaijiri, K. (2009). Using Content Analysis of Written Text for a Formative Assessment of Open-Ended Questions and Essays. In G. Siemens & C. Fulford (Eds.), Proceedings of ED-MEDIA 2009--World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia & Telecommunications (pp. 3480-3485). Honolulu, HI, USA: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved August 5, 2024 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/31979/.
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