Students showed clear appetite for automated writing support and comfort with machine-generated feedback¶

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q2 i? Among survey respondents, there was a clear appetite for support from tools such as AWA, with most rating themselves quite or very likely to use it if made available. → Knight 2016

Evidence¶

Knight 2016¶

Knight, S., Buckingham Shum, S., Ryan, P., Sándor, Á., & Wang, X. (2016). Designing Academic Writing Analytics for Civil Law Student Self-Assessment. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 28(1), 1–28. doi:10.1007/s40593-016-0121-0

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Survey of 12 of 40 participating students after a week of experimentation. Response frequencies were tabulated for the likelihood-of-use question; students probed the system by uploading essays from multiple disciplines and comparing feedback across mark ranges.

"There was a clear appetite for support from tools such as AWA among these students. The students were invited to use the tool to reflect on their current assignment; however, a number of them mention 'testing the system'– uploading multiple assignments; varying expression in individual assignments; and uploading assignments from varying disciplines, to explore the differences in feedback obtained."

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