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Automated essay assessment: an evaluation on paperrater’s reliability from practice / Nguyen Vi Thong
From a perspective of a PaperRater user, the author attempts to investigate the reliability of the
program. Twenty-four freshman students and one writing teacher at Dalat University - Vietnam
were recruited to serve the study. The author also served as one scorer. The scores generated by
PaperRater and the two human scorers were analyzed quantitatively and qualitatively. The
statistical results indicate that there is an excellent correlation between the means of scores
generated by three scorers. With the aid of SPSS and certain calculation, it is shown that
PaterRater has an acceptable reliability which implies that the program can somehow assist in
grading students’ papers. The semi-structured interview at the qualitative stage with the teacher
scorer helped point out several challenges that writing teachers might encounter when assessing
students’ prompts. From her perspective, it was admitted that with the assistance of PaperRater,
the burden of assessing a bunch of prompts at a short time period would be much released.
However, how the program can be employed by teachers should be carefully investigated.
Therefore, this study provides writing teachers with pedagogical implications on how
PaperRater should be used in writing classrooms. The study is expected to shed new light on the
possibility of adopting an automated evaluation instrument as a scoring assistant in large
writing classrooms
Delivering Abortion Access to the Rural Midwest: A Partnership with Just the Pill
Poster presentation detailing a community based health project. Quality improvement data from the non-profit Just the Pill was analyzed to determine to benefits and drawbacks of providing reproductive health care virtually.University of Minnesota Medical School,
Just the PillKirkeide, Marina; Aspros, Kirsten; Madzey, Stephanie; Nguyen, Vi; Wanberg, Lindsey. (2022). Delivering Abortion Access to the Rural Midwest: A Partnership with Just the Pill. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/241838
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
The present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
We provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
We conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
We have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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