Automatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristics
When capacity constraints hinder university instructors’ ability to give feedback, software tools might provide a remedy. We analyzed students’ acceptance of automatic assessments and the development of learning-related characteristics such as motivation, achievement aspirations, and subjec...
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Drustvo Psihologa Srbije
2016-01-01
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| description | When capacity constraints hinder university instructors’ ability to give
feedback, software tools might provide a remedy. We analyzed students’
acceptance of automatic assessments and the development of learning-related
characteristics such as motivation, achievement aspirations, and subjective
learning. We randomly assigned university students to four groups that
differed with regard to the real and assumed source of assessment of
students’ texts (i.e., teaching assistant or software tool). Data from N =
300 students were analyzed. Assessments were less accepted when presumably
coming from the software tool. Students mostly preferred human graders over
computers in teaching in general, but this preference was weakened for some
situations when students assumed they were being assessed by the software
tool. Nevertheless, students saw some general merits to assessment by
computers, and the development of learning-related characteristics was not
affected by the real or assumed source of assessment. Thus, combining
feedback from software tools and human graders seems to be a feasible way to
expand feedback capacities in higher education. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b16a6ccc7ad743558d326e5013f54c722022-12-21T22:54:08ZengDrustvo Psihologa SrbijePsihologija0048-57051451-92832016-01-0149446948210.2298/PSI1604469S0048-57051604469SAutomatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristicsSeifried Eva0Lenhard Wolfgang1Spinath Birgit2Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, GermanyUniversity of Würzburg, Würzburg, GermanyHeidelberg University, Heidelberg, GermanyWhen capacity constraints hinder university instructors’ ability to give feedback, software tools might provide a remedy. We analyzed students’ acceptance of automatic assessments and the development of learning-related characteristics such as motivation, achievement aspirations, and subjective learning. We randomly assigned university students to four groups that differed with regard to the real and assumed source of assessment of students’ texts (i.e., teaching assistant or software tool). Data from N = 300 students were analyzed. Assessments were less accepted when presumably coming from the software tool. Students mostly preferred human graders over computers in teaching in general, but this preference was weakened for some situations when students assumed they were being assessed by the software tool. Nevertheless, students saw some general merits to assessment by computers, and the development of learning-related characteristics was not affected by the real or assumed source of assessment. Thus, combining feedback from software tools and human graders seems to be a feasible way to expand feedback capacities in higher education.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0048-5705/2016/0048-57051604469S.pdfautomatic essay scoringacceptancemotivationachievement aspirationssubjective learninghigher education |
| spellingShingle | Seifried Eva Lenhard Wolfgang Spinath Birgit Automatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristics Psihologija automatic essay scoring acceptance motivation achievement aspirations subjective learning higher education |
| title | Automatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristics |
| title_full | Automatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristics |
| title_fullStr | Automatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Automatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristics |
| title_short | Automatic essay assessment: Effects on students’ acceptance and on learning-related characteristics |
| title_sort | automatic essay assessment effects on students acceptance and on learning related characteristics |
| topic | automatic essay scoring acceptance motivation achievement aspirations subjective learning higher education |
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