Paul Deane
Using Writing Process and Product Features to Assess Writing Quality and Explore How Those Features Relate to Other Literacy Tasks
Educational Testing Service
paper explores automated methods measuring features student writing determining relationship writing quality features literacy reading rest scores particular uses erater automatic essay scoring system measure product features measurable traits final written text features extracted keystroke logs measure process features measurable features writing process techniques applied student essays written largescale pilot administrations writing assessments developed ets cbal research initiative design makes possible explore factor structures product process features examine well generalize beyond single test session predict underlying traits writing ability reading level three product factors identified connected fluency accuracy content process factors identified corresponding hesitancy behaviors editing behaviors burst span extent text produced long bursts short internal pauses results suggest writing process product features stable factor structures generalize predict writing quality though genre taskspecific differences