WReD alert! Towards a Written Reflection Dataset?
Ming Liu and I just posted on our writing analytics blog some thoughts about a new initiative — the tricky challenge of building a corpus of reflective writing to advance the […]
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Open source release of Academic Writing Analytics
When I arrived at UTS, I spent the first 6 months or so assessing the state of play with respect to student writing. It became clear through consultations across faculties […]
New PostDoc Fellowship & PhD Scholarships in Learning Analytics
It’s been an exciting 3.5 years here at UTS, and CIC is about to move into a new phase, with some team changes, and new openings. It’s always a delight […]
Congratulations Dr Bektik!
Many congratulations to Duygu Bektik (née Simsek) whose PhD is now available! Duygu passed with flying colours — truly a landmark in one’s life Thank you to Rebecca Ferguson, Denise Whitelock and […]
Writing Analytics update
Since I arrived at UTS we’ve been researching and prototyping our way forward, in close collaboration with academics here. We want to understand the potential of the (sometimes controversial) topic of providing […]
REVIEW Software – A tool and pedagogic strategy to improve assessment
REVIEWTM Software – A tool and a strategy to improve assessment I wrote this with Darrall Thompson recently for something, and think it’s worth sharing! Darrall also put together this […]
Tools for automated rhetorical analysis of academic writing
Alert – Long post! In this post, I’m presenting a summary of my review on tools for automatically analyzing rhetorical structures from academic writing. The tools considered are designed to […]
Notes: XIP – Automated rhetorical parsing of scientific metadiscourse
Reference: Simsek, D., Buckingham Shum, S., Sandor, A., De Liddo, A., & Ferguson, R. (2013). XIP Dashboard: visual analytics from automated rhetorical parsing of scientific metadiscourse. In: 1st International Workshop […]
Notes: NLP Techniques for peer feedback
Reference: Xiong, W., Litman, D. J., & Schunn, C. D. (2012). Natural language processing techniques for researching and improving peer feedback. Journal of Writing Research, 4(2), 155-176. Background: Feedback on […]
Diagnostic peer assessment
One of the things I’m interested in is how to use assessment (and especially peer and self assessment) as a learning activity. A method I used as a teacher, and […]