Philippe Dessus, Stefan Trausan, Sonia Mandin, Traian Rebedea, Virginie Zampa, Mihai Dascalu, Emmanuelle Villiot-Leclercq (2010): Assessing Writing and Collaboration in Learning: Methodological Issues. In Gunnar Stevens (Eds.), International Reports on Socio-Informatics (IRSI), Workshop Proceedings of 9th International Conference on the Design of Cooperative Systems – COOP 2010, Aix-en-Provence, France, May 2010 (Vol. 7, Iss. 1, pp. 86-94) (pdf)
Abstract. We describe the main tasks students usually complete when working in an e- learning platform, across five mean features that have to be taken into account in research efforts (writing-based activities, individual/collective level, knowledge/ pedagogy orientation, feedback, multiple stakeholders account). Ways to analyse and assist these tasks by (semi)-automatic assessments using NLP techniques is discussed. Two services aiming to assist writing-based tasks are presented along with their first validation.