Assessing Writing Apr 2025

Assessing academic language in tenth grade essays using natural language processing

Andrew Potter ; Mitchell Shortt ; Maria Goldshtein ; Rod D. Roscoe
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Assessing Writing
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2025-04-01
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10.1016/j.asw.2025.100921
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