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Key to detecting flexibility over time: Entropy and natural language processing
2015
Journal of Learning Analytics
Writing researchers have suggested that students who are perceived as strong writers (i.e., those who generate texts rated as high quality) demonstrate flexibility in their writing style. While anecdotally this has been a commonly held belief among researchers and educators, there is little empirical research to support this claim. This study investigates this hypothesis by examining how students vary in their use of two linguistic features (i.e., narrativity and cohesion) across 16
doi:10.18608/jla.2015.23.4
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