EdTech @ ADW

I was asked by the faculty at the Enhanced Learning Centre (ELC) to modify a previous application I was working on that provides writing feedback which indicates for students those aspects of writing that require further learning and practice (i.e. communication, grammar, vocabulary, mechanics).

In this new incarnation of the application, no band scores are to be given for each writing aspect. This was decided because the ELC faculty felt it would be difficult to accurately specify bandscores for the wide range of students (i.e. Diploma to Bachelor-level) who come to the ELC for help to remediate their writing problems.

The ELC faculty recognize the usefulness of automatically being able to generate detailed comments regarding the different writing aspects specified in the application. They have also said they will use these aspects as the basis for categories under which to organize supplementary learning materials, which the feedback generator will be able to point students towards - generated as a result of the particular writing feedback these teachers provide to students using this application.