Automated Scoring of Summary-Writing Tasks Designed to Measure Reading Comprehension / Nitin Madnani, Jill Burstein and John Sabatini.

We introduce a cognitive framework for measuring reading comprehension that includes the use of novel summary-writing tasks. We derive NLP features from the holistic rubric used to score the summaries written by students for such tasks and use them to design a preliminary, automated scoring system....

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Authors:	Madnani, Nitin, Burstein, Jill (Author), Sabatini, John (Author), O'Reilly, Tenaha (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2013.
Subjects:	Computer Assisted Testing. Scoring. Writing Evaluation. Reading Comprehension. Elementary School Students. Secondary School Students. Grade 6. Grade 7. Grade 9. Automation.