Monitoring student progress through their written "point of originality"

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 212-221

  Lárusson, Jóhann Ari ^a   White, Brandon ^b  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

evaluation of student writing; information visualization; learning analytics; lexical analysis; pedagogical adjustment intervention; recasting

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; LEARNING ANALYTICS; LEXICAL ANALYSIS; PEDAGOGICAL ADJUSTMENT/INTERVENTION; RECASTING; STUDENT WRITING;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84864705681     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2330601.2330653     Document Type: Conference Paper

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