Civic learning is increasingly recognized as important by the higher education and
workforce communities. The development of high‐quality assessments that can be used to …

Application of new automated scoring technologies, such as natural language processing
and machine learning, makes it possible to provide automated feedback on students' short …

Syntactic complexity has been an area of significant interest in L2 writing development
studies over the past 45 years. Despite the regularity in which syntactic complexity measures …

This study examines second language (L2) syntactic development in conjunction with the
effects such development has on human judgments of writing quality (ie, judgments of both …

Several key developments challenge the field of educational measurement today: demands
for tests at larger scales with higher stakes, an improved understanding of how people …

An important topic in writing research has been the use of cohesive features. Much of this
research has focused on local and text cohesion. The few studies that have studied global …

Lexical sophistication is an important component of writing proficiency. New lexical indices
related to range, n-gram frequency, psycholinguistic word information, academic language …

This paper reviews the research approaches used in computer-assisted pronunciation
training (CAPT), addresses the existing challenges, and discusses emerging trends and …

This study analyzes lexical proficiency in oral and written texts produced by second
language (L2) learners of English. The purpose of the study is to examine relationships …

Constructed response items can both measure the coherence of student ideas and serve as
reflective experiences to strengthen instruction. We report on new automated scoring …