Cluster membership showed a strong multivariate effect on standard text-similarity metrics (Pillai's trace = 0.85, F(12, 248) = 15.31, p < 0.001)¶

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q3 i? A MANOVA over BLEU, ROUGE-1/2/L, METEOR, and BERTScore revealed that clusters differed reliably in surface-level textual similarity. → Teresa Luther · Kate Belcher · Joachim Kimmerle · Detmar Meurers · Ulrike Cress 2026

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Teresa Luther · Kate Belcher · Joachim Kimmerle · Detmar Meurers · Ulrike Cress 2026¶

Teresa Luther · Kate Belcher · Joachim Kimmerle · Detmar Meurers · Ulrike Cress (2026). Collaborative knowledge construction with generative AI: Exploring argumentative co-writing processes through n-gram and cluster analysis. Intern. J. Comput.-Support. Collab. Learn. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11412-026-09470-1

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Omnibus MANOVA treating the six benchmark scores as joint dependent variables to validate the n-gram clustering; a "strong multivariate effect of cluster membership" was found. Descriptively, Clusters 1 and 3 had higher BLEU, ROUGE, and BERTScore means than Cluster 2.

"The analysis revealed a strong multivariate effect of cluster membership on the combined set of metrics (Pillai's trace = 0.85, F(12, 248) = 15.31, p < 0.001), indicating that clusters differed reliably in surface-level textual similarity as captured by n-gram overlap."

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