Developing and testing a self-assessment and tutoring system

Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications, BEA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 32-41

  Andersen, Øistein E ^a   Yannakoudakis, Helen ^b   Barker, Fiona ^b   Parish, Tim ^a  

^a ILexIR Ltd   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambridge ESOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM; AUTOMATED FEEDBACK; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; FOREIGN LANGUAGE; PROCESS OF LEARNING; QUALITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SELF-ASSESSMENT; TEACHERS'; TUTORING SYSTEM;

EID: 85119849415     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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