Automated Assessment of Argumentative Essay Revisions for Formative Feedback
A writing-evaluation approach that evaluates the revisions a student makes between essay drafts rather than only a single draft. Aligned original/revised sentence pairs are classified as surface versus content changes and as evidence versus reasoning revisions, and a model predicts whether each revision successfully addressed prior feedback, enabling revision-specific formative feedback that helps students improve text-based argumentative writing.
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Automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems score student essays and return feedback, but earlier systems judged only evidence use and students' revisions often failed to improve their essays. This pa…