Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and Speculation

Abstract Writing a thesis involves complying with certain rules and requirements established by institutional guides of universities. Students, often being too inexperienced to create good written documents, have guidelines to follow when developing their first drafts. This study seeks to help stude...

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Autores principales:	González-López,Samuel, López López,Aurelio
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje 2020
Materias:	Natural language processing educational data mining automated text evaluation goal connectedness thesis assessment
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0718-093420200003006432020-12-15Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and SpeculationGonzález-López,SamuelLópez López,Aurelio Natural language processing educational data mining automated text evaluation goal connectedness thesis assessment Abstract Writing a thesis involves complying with certain rules and requirements established by institutional guides of universities. Students, often being too inexperienced to create good written documents, have guidelines to follow when developing their first drafts. This study seeks to help students improve their first writings, based on natural language processing techniques. We focus primarily on the conclusion section of a thesis, a central element when completing a research project. In this paper, a conclusion analyzer that includes three models: goal connectedness, judgment and speculation is presented. Such subsystems try to evaluate the main expected features in conclusions, specifically the connectedness with the general objective, the evidence of value judgments, and the presence of future work as a result of the student’s reflection. In the study, we provide initial models, internal exploration of conclusions, and evaluations of our approach. We found across the three features evaluated that graduate level student texts outperformed those of undergraduate level. The behavior provides evidence, that students with more practice in writing a scientific paper or thesis (at the graduate level), have better writing skills.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessPontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del LenguajeRevista signos v.53 n.104 20202020-12-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0718-09342020000300643en10.4067/S0718-09342020000300643
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spellingShingle	Natural language processing educational data mining automated text evaluation goal connectedness thesis assessment González-López,Samuel López López,Aurelio Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and Speculation
description	Abstract Writing a thesis involves complying with certain rules and requirements established by institutional guides of universities. Students, often being too inexperienced to create good written documents, have guidelines to follow when developing their first drafts. This study seeks to help students improve their first writings, based on natural language processing techniques. We focus primarily on the conclusion section of a thesis, a central element when completing a research project. In this paper, a conclusion analyzer that includes three models: goal connectedness, judgment and speculation is presented. Such subsystems try to evaluate the main expected features in conclusions, specifically the connectedness with the general objective, the evidence of value judgments, and the presence of future work as a result of the student’s reflection. In the study, we provide initial models, internal exploration of conclusions, and evaluations of our approach. We found across the three features evaluated that graduate level student texts outperformed those of undergraduate level. The behavior provides evidence, that students with more practice in writing a scientific paper or thesis (at the graduate level), have better writing skills.
author	González-López,Samuel López López,Aurelio
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title	Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and Speculation
title_short	Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and Speculation
title_full	Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and Speculation
title_fullStr	Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and Speculation
title_full_unstemmed	Assessing Thesis Conclusions by their Connectedness with Goal, Judgment and Speculation
title_sort	assessing thesis conclusions by their connectedness with goal, judgment and speculation
publisher	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje
publishDate	2020
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