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The Question Of School Resources And Student Achievement: A History And Reconsideration, Larry Hedges, Terri D. Pigott, Joshua Polanin, Ann Marie Ryan, Charles Tocci, Ryan T. Williams Jan 2018

The Question Of School Resources And Student Achievement: A History And Reconsideration, Larry Hedges, Terri D. Pigott, Joshua Polanin, Ann Marie Ryan, Charles Tocci, Ryan T. Williams

Terri Pigott

One question posed continually over the past century of education research is to what extent school resources affect student outcomes. From the turn of the century to the present, a diverse set of actors, including politicians, physicians, and researchers from a number of disciplines, have studied whether and how money that is provided for schools translates into increased student achievement. The authors discuss the historical origins of the question of whether school resources relate to student achievement, and report the results of a meta- analysis of studies examining that relationship. They find that policymakers, researchers, and other stakeholders have addressed …


Why Can’T It Mark This One? A Qualitative Analysis Of Student Writing Rejected By An Automated Essay Scoring System, Nathanael Reinertsen Dec 2017

Why Can’T It Mark This One? A Qualitative Analysis Of Student Writing Rejected By An Automated Essay Scoring System, Nathanael Reinertsen

Nathanael Reinertsen

The difference in how humans read and how Automatic Essay Scoring (AES) systems process written language leads to a situation where a portion of student responses will be comprehensible to human markers, while being unable to be parsed by AES systems. This paper examines a number of pieces of student writing that were marked by trained human markers, but subsequently rejected by an AES system during the development of a scoring model for the eWrite online writing assessment that is offered by The Australian Council for Educational Research. The features of these ‘unscoreable’ responses are examined through a qualitative analysis. …