Conference paper accepted to ICLS, with some wonderful international co-authors and collaborators (Laura Allen at Arizona State, Karen Littleton and Bart Rienties at the OU, Dirk Tempelaar at Maastricht, and thanks to Chirag Shah and Matt Mitsui at Rutgers), abstract below, full text available on ORO.

Abstract: Literacy, encompassing the ability to produce written outputs from the reading of multiple sources, is a key learning goal. Selecting information, and evaluating and integrating claims from potentially competing documents is a complex literacy task. Prior research exploring differing behaviours and their association to constructs such as epistemic cognition has used ‘multiple document processing’ (MDP) tasks. Using this model, 270 paired participants, wrote a review of a document. Reports were assessed using a rubric associated with features of complex literacy behaviours. This paper focuses on the conceptual and empirical associations between those rubric-marks and textual features of the reports on a set of natural language processing (NLP) indicators. Findings indicate the potential of NLP indicators for providing feedback regarding the writing of such outputs, demonstrating clear relationships both across rubric facets and between rubric facets and specific NLP indicators.

Source: SK Blog
Link: New output: Epistemic commitments in written texts