Maximising student success with automatic formative feedback for both teachers and students

Communications in Computer and Information Science

Volumn 571, Issue , 2015, Pages 142-148

  Whitelock, Denise ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Automatic feedback; Essay feedback; Formative feedback; Natural Language Processing; Opensource

Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; STUDENTS; TEACHING;

ACADEMIC WRITINGS; AUTOMATIC FEEDBACK; EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION; FORMATIVE FEEDBACKS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OPEN-SOURCE; PEDAGOGICAL STRATEGIES; STUDENT LEARNING;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84952665729     PISSN: 18650929     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27704-2_14     Document Type: Conference Paper

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