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Automated Evaluation for Student Argumentative Writing: A Survey

2022/05/09 by Xinyu Wang, Wang, Xinyu, Yohan Lee +3 · 1 citation
Computer Science · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods #Software Engineering Research #Wikis in Education and Collaboration

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2205.04083

openalex publication_date 2022/05/09 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This paper surveys and organizes research works in an under-studied area, which we call automated evaluation for student argumentative writing. Unlike traditional automated writing evaluation that focuses on holistic essay scoring, this field is more specific: it focuses on evaluating argumentative essays and offers specific feedback, including argumentation structures, argument strength trait score, etc. The focused and detailed evaluation is useful for helping students acquire important argumentation skill. In this paper we organize existing works around tasks, data and methods. We further experiment with BERT on representative datasets, aiming to provide up-to-date baselines for this field.

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