Assessing Student Understanding of the Text: Comparing Model-Based and Text-Based Approaches to Summary Evaluation

EasyChair Preprint no. 3820

Abstract

In this study, we proposed two approaches to summary analysis (model-based and text-based) along three dimensions: surface, structure, and semantic. We investigated the power of the two approaches to assess changes in students' summaries. Results demonstrated the theoretical overlap of model-based and the text-based approaches and the potential for a more nuanced account of how students understand text.

Keyphrases: formative assessment, mental model, Natural Language Processing, reading comprehension, Summary evaluation, summary writing

@Booklet{EasyChair:3820,
  author = {Min Kyu Kim and Kathryn McCarthy and Ali Heidari},
  title = {Assessing Student Understanding of the Text: Comparing Model-Based and Text-Based Approaches to Summary Evaluation},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 3820},

  year = {EasyChair, 2020}}