Data Mining Large-Scale Formative Writing
Peter W. Foltz, Mark Rosenstein, Pearson, USA · Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR) eBooks · 2017
Student writing in digital educational environments can provide a wealth of information about the processes involved in learning to write as well as evidence for the impact of the students having opportunities to practice, most particularly when they are supported with frequent feedback and are taught strategies for planning, revising, and editing their compositions.Formative systems incorporating automated writing scoring provide the opportunities for students to write, receive feedback, and then revise essays in a timely iterative cycle.This chapter provides an analysis of a large-scale formative writing system prompts used to improve educational outcomes, better understand the role of feedback in writing, drive improvements in formative technology, and design better kinds of feedback and scaffolding to support students in the writing process.