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Record W3107007507 · doi:10.18806/tesl.v37i2.1340

Perspectives on Using Automated Writing Evaluation Systems to Provide Written Corrective Feedback in the ESL Classroom

2020· article· en· W3107007507 on OpenAlex
Johanathan Woodworth, Khaled Barkaoui

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueTESL Canada Journal · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of CambridgeEducational Testing Service
KeywordsCorrective feedbackSecond language writingAutonomyComplement (music)RedactionPedagogyComputer sciencePsychologyMathematics educationLinguisticsSecond languagePolitical sciencePhilosophyArtLiterature

Abstract

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While feedback is widely considered essential for second language (L2) writing development (Bitchener & Ferris, 2012), teachers may not always be able to provide their learners with immediate and frequent corrective feedback. Automated writing evaluation (AWE) systems can help respond to this challenge by providing L2 learners with written corrective feedback (WCF) instantaneously and as frequently as needed both inside and outside the ESL classroom. Proponents of the use of AWE systems argue that these systems can facilitate more writing practice, increase learner motivation and accuracy, and promote learner autonomy. Critics argue that AWE systems cannot give individualized feedback, are prone to errors, can diminish the role of the teacher, and warp students’ notions of good writing. As a compromise, it is recommended to use feedback from AWE systems to complement, rather than replace, teacher WCF. In this perspectives paper, we discuss the main benefits and drawbacks of using AWE to provide WCF in the ESL classroom. We conclude by arguing that, when used judiciously and effectively to complement teacher feedback, WCF from AWE systems can support teachers’ work and enhance learners’ writing motivation and development in the ESL classroom. Alors qu’un consensus existe pour dire que la rétroaction est essentielle pour le développement de la rédaction en langue seconde (L2) (Bitchener & Ferris, 2012), les enseignants ne sont peut-être pas toujours en mesure de fournir une rétroaction corrective immédiate et fréquente à leurs apprenants. Les systèmes d’évaluation automatique de rédaction peuvent aider à répondre à ce défi en fournissant aux apprenants de L2 une rétroaction corrective écrite instantanée et de façon aussi fréquente que nécessaire à la fois en classe et hors de la classe d’ALS. Les défenseurs de l’utilisation des systèmes disent que ces systèmes peuvent encourager la pratique de la rédaction, augmenter la motivation et la précision de l’apprenant et promouvoir l’autonomie de l’apprenant. Les critiques avancent que les systèmes d’évaluation automatique ne peuvent pas donner de rétroaction personnalisée, sont susceptibles de faire des erreurs, peuvent diminuer le rôle de l’enseignant et déformer la perception des étudiants quant à ce qui constitue une bonne rédaction. On recommande, comme compromis, d’utiliser la rétroaction des systèmes d’évaluation automatique comme un complément, plutôt que comme un remplacement de la rétroaction corrective écrite de l’enseignant. Dans cet article donnant des perspectives, nous discutons des principaux avantages et inconvénients de l’utilisation de l’évaluation automatique de rédaction pour fournir de la rétroaction corrective écrite dans la classe d’anglais langue seconde. Nous arrivons à la conclusion que, utilisée de manière judicieuse et efficace pour compléter la rétroaction de l’enseignant, la rétroaction corrective écrite issue des systèmes d’évaluation automatique de rédaction peut soutenir le travail des enseignants et augmenter la motivation et le développement de la rédaction des apprenants dans la classe d’ALS.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.190
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.073
GPT teacher head0.287
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it