Towards app-based formative feedback to support summarizing skills

Peter Van Rosmalen, Liesbeth Kester, Els Boshuizen

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Abstract

Secondary education students have difficulty to comprehend text, let alone, hypertext. Summarizing is an effective strategy to improve text com-prehension. It enables students to link the text content to existing prior knowl-edge, promotes self-testing which helps them to identify their comprehension gaps and fix them and directs students' attention to important content parts. However, summarizing takes skill that secondary education students often lack. This paper discusses the design of an app which aims to enhance summarizing skill acquisition and, hence, text comprehension of secondary education stu-dents by providing just-in-time, formative feedback as part of summarization activities. The app discussed will offer a formative assessment of a student's summary through visualization of salient aspects of it as compared to a peer's or teacher's work with additional guidance. Visualisation and guidance will be highly automated thus easing access and use in real practice. It builds on prior, recent research, showing that automatically created visualisations can be used to support writing.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTEFA 2013 - Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment, Co-located with EC-TEL 2013, the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning
PublisherCEUR WS
Volume1147
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2nd Workshop on Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment, TEFA 2013 - Co-located with the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2013 - Paphos, Cyprus
Duration: 17 Sept 201321 Sept 2013

Conference

Conference2nd Workshop on Technology Enhanced Formative Assessment, TEFA 2013 - Co-located with the 8th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2013
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPaphos
Period17/09/1321/09/13

Keywords

  • Formative feedback
  • Language technology
  • Summary writing
  • Tech-nology enhanced learning
  • Text comprehension
  • Visualisation

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