Automated Assessment of Essays in Primary Education: Particularities of the Basque
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https://doi.org/10.59866/eia.v2i71.352Keywords:
Basque, writing, assessment, Primary Education, Natural Language Processing (NLP), CTAP (Common Text Analysis Platform)Abstract
This research analyzed the development of writing skills across different grades of Primary Education. One hundred eighty-one texts in Basque were digitized, and their linguistic features were extracted using the CTAP (Common Text Analysis Platform) tool, employing the CAF (Complexity, Accuracy, Fluency) framework to select the most appropriate complexity measures. The results demonstrate that certain indicators detect significant differences between school levels. In the 4th grade of Primary Education, the number of verb phrases is the indicator with the greatest capacity to discriminate between the scores assigned by teachers.Downloads
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