TED University
Faculty of Education
"Computer-assisted Assessment of Academic Writing”
By
Dr. Aysel Sarıcaoğlu
Date: December 7, 2015, Monday
Time: 11:30-12:00
Place: A141
Dr. Aysel Saricaoglu gave a seminar on computer-assisted assessment of academic writing. She specifically addressed automated assessment of cause-effect writing, which is a very common genre taught in academic writing classes at higher education levels worldwide. She compared human evaluation of cause-effect language with automated evaluation addressing the limitations and difficulties of human evaluation in terms of the lack of focus on causal language, the inability to give formative feedback based on causal developmental path, the time consuming feature of manual assessment, etc. After briefly discussing the impact of technological advancements in language assessment today and the emergence of computerized systems to evaluate written language, she introduced an automated causal discourse evaluation tool that she developed within the scope of her dissertation work. She described the approaches to developing the tool and presented her findings on the effectiveness of automated formative feedback to develop ESL learners’ written causal discourse. She concluded her presentation with implications for writing pedagogy and recommendations for future research.
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