AssessAsYouGo Writing Assistant

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Assess-As-You-Go Writing Assistant

• College of Education
• Kevin Dressel
• Dan Hess
• Cameron Kikoen
• Jordan Schwartz

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Overview

• Big Picture
• Liaison
• Our Part
• Progress

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Big Picture

• Web-based learning environment
• 1.5 million grant from US Dept of Education
• Early stages

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Big Picture

• Teacher-created and student-actioned rubric
• Automated natural language processing
• Web 2.0 style commenting and rating of student
  works by teachers, parents, experts, peers and
  self
• Psychometric mechanisms to measure individual
  student progress over time and individual student
  performance in relation to cohorts (the class,
  students of the same demographic profile etc.).

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Big Picture

• More valuable assessment of student progress
  versus testing
• Immediate feedback
• Entire project in Ruby on Rails

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Liaison, other staff

• Dr. Bill Cope
• With multidisciplinary U of I Team
• Common Ground Publishing
• Andrew Aken

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CG Author
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Our part

• Rating system
• Teachers make a rubric for an assignment
• Students/Teachers review assignments using rubric
• Author rates rating and comments
• Allow for dialogue

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Current Progress

• Currently available collaborative editing suites
• Review systems
• Structure of our part

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ER-Diagram
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Current Progress

• IDE Aptana RadRails
• Rough versions

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Future Work

• Software Development
• Project Plan