Special issue: Automatic free-text evaluation

International Journal of Continuing Engineering Education and Life-Long Learning 21(2/3) 2011

• EssayAid: towards a semi-automatic system for assessing student texts
• Automated free-text assessment: some lessons learned
• Willow: a system to automatically assess students' free-text answers by using a combination of shallow NLP techniques
• Understanding expert ratings of essay quality: Coh-Metrix analyses of first and second language writing
• Using latent semantic analysis to grade brief summaries: some proposals
• Prediction of item psychometric indices from item characteristics automatically extracted from the stem and option text
• Automatising language creativity for learning second language vocabulary
• Categorising spelling errors to assess L2 writing
• A metamorphosis of university from past to present: a three-stage development trajectory with strategic management perspective