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Spring 2019
Automated essay scoring (AES) is a developing technology that is increasingly recognized as a potential strategy for managing the challenges associated with testing and scoring written assessments. The importance of using open-ended writing assessments to facilitate higher-level thinking,...
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Using Automated Procedures to Score Written Essays in Persian: An Application of the Multilingual BERT System
DownloadSpring 2023
The automated scoring of student essays is now recognized as a significant development in both the research and practice of educational testing. The majority of the published studies on automated essay scoring (AES) focus on outcomes in English. Studies on multilingual AES—meaning languages other...
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Fall 2019
Computerized formative assessments (CFA) are becoming popular in post-secondary education because they can offer immediate feedback and on-demand testing. This has created a pressing need for large numbers of content-specified items together with their feedback so that the items may be available...
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Spring 2020
Accurate assessment of how animals distribute themselves across the landscape is an essential component of ecological research. Ecologists often conduct surveys to subsample a representative portion of an area of interest and extrapolate their findings to a larger region. Acoustic surveys are...
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Fall 2009
Character behaviours in computer role-playing games have a significant impact on game-play, but are often difficult for story authors to implement and modify. Many computer games use custom scripts to control the behaviours of non-player characters (NPCs). Therefore, a story author must write...
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Fall 2018
Anthropogenic disturbance is known to have negative population consequences and alter animal behaviour, and a growing body of research on the effects of anthropogenic noise is finding similar negative impacts on wildlife. Noise in natural environments can mask important acoustic signals used for...
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Using Biomolecular Recognition to Selectively Self-Assemble Microscale Components onto Patterned Substrates
DownloadSpring 2015
Modern nanofabrication technology in the 21st century has continued year after year to push the boundaries of what is possible at the nanoscale. With the advent of molecular electronics, single electron devices, nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS), and other nanotechnologies, the near future...
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Using biosolids as a water source in non-catalytic hydrolysis reactions for biofuel production
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Biosolids are residues produced from the treatment of municipal sludge and are rich in organic materials. The growing volume of biosolids and concerns over microbial safety highlight the difficulties associated with biosolids disposal. Canada generates about 660,000 dry tons of biosolids...