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Enhancing Writing Assessment With Automated Tools: An Exploratory Analysis of Third-Grade Narratives Using

Ashley Ippolito1, Carla Wood1

  • 1School of Communication Science & Disorders, Florida State University, Tallahassee.

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ScriptSense offers a new web-based tool for analyzing student writing, focusing on linguistic development rather than errors. This platform provides insights into morphological complexity, lexical diversity, and syntactic structures in children's narratives.

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Area of Science:

  • Educational Technology
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Traditional writing assessments often focus on surface-level correctness, overlooking deeper linguistic development.
  • There is a need for accessible tools to analyze the complexities of student writing.
  • Existing frameworks like the Morphological Pathways Framework and Lexical Quality Hypothesis offer theoretical underpinnings for linguistic analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Introduce ScriptSense, a web-based platform for linguistic analysis of student writing.
  • Provide accessible descriptions of students' underlying linguistic development.
  • Analyze morphological complexity, lexical diversity, and syntactic development in written language.

Main Methods:

  • A cross-sectional pilot design was employed with 50 third-grade narrative writing samples.
  • ScriptSense performed automated analyses to extract indices of morphological use, lexical diversity, and syntactic structure.
  • Descriptive analyses and subset verification were used to assess the outputs.

    • Main Results:

    • Students exhibited moderate lexical diversity (M TTR = 0.68) and lexical density (M = 0.59) with an average of 56 words per narrative.
    • All students used inflectional morphology, and over two-thirds produced derivational morphemes.
    • Syntactic analysis revealed variability in sentence elaboration, with an average of 4.30 clauses per sentence.

    Conclusions:

    • ScriptSense provides an accessible, descriptive approach to examining children's written language, moving beyond error-based scoring.
    • The platform demonstrates its capability to generate multidimensional linguistic profiles of student writing.
    • Findings highlight the potential of ScriptSense to offer deeper insights into students' linguistic development.