Essay position did not affect essay scores, but essay-last students wrote essays of similar quality in less time using fewer words¶
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q2 i? Essay scores did not differ between essay-last (Group 1) and essay-first (Group 24) students, but Group 1 had significantly shorter total essay writing time and fewer words. → Hongwen Guo 2020
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Hongwen Guo 2020¶
Hongwen Guo, Mo Zhang, Paul Deane, Randy E. Bennett. (2020). Effects of Scenario-Based Assessment on Students’ Writing Processes. Journal of Educational Data Mining, Volume 12, No 1. https://jedm.educationaldatamining.org/index.php/JEDM/article/view/443
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Two-sample Wilcoxon rank tests comparing Group 1 and Group 24 on box-plot summaries (typing speed, essay score, essay time, word count); the article reports essay scores were comparable while “the mean total essay writing time and the mean total number of words” were significantly smaller for Group 1. Only significance, no effect size, is printed.
"the mean total essay writing time and the mean total number of words (essay lengths) were statistically significantly smaller (shorter) for Group 1 than for Group 24."
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Related Claims¶
- The mixed-scenario essay-last design lowered essay scores and reduced essay writing time and word count relative to the single-scenario essay-last design — related
- In the mixed-scenario comparison, the single-scenario essay-last group spent longer time in local-editing and jump-editing states than the mixed-scenario essay-last group — related
- GD groups wrote essays significantly better in total grounds quality, total conceptual quality, and average conceptual quality, but did not cover more topics and were not better in average grounds quality. — related
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Essay position did not affect essay scores, but essay-last students wrote essays of similar quality in less time using fewer words |
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Essay position did not affect essay scores, but essay-last students wrote essays of similar quality in less time using fewer words |
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