Automatic Generation of Student Report Cards

Amy Isard; Jeremy Knox

doi:10.18653/v1/W16-6633

Automatic Generation of Student Report Cards

Amy Isard, Jeremy Knox

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The Learning Analytics Report Card (LARC) is a pilot system which takes time-series data from a student’s course-related activity in a Virtual Learning Environment and generates automatic textual summaries in real time. Students are able to generate reports as often as they like, and to choose which aspects of their behaviour are included in each report. As well as rating a student’s scores against set standards, the generated texts make comparisons with the individual student’s previous behaviour from the same course, and with the average scores of their student cohort. In addition, we carry out sentiment analysis on the student’s forum posts, and generate a summary using quantifiers. We report some student reactions to initial trials of the system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of The 9th International Natural Language Generation conference
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Pages	207-211
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W16-6633
Publication status	Published - 8 Sept 2016
Event	9th International Natural Language Generation conference - Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Sept 2016 → 8 Sept 2016 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/

Conference

Conference	9th International Natural Language Generation conference
Abbreviated title	INLG 2016
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Edinburgh
Period	5/09/16 → 8/09/16
Internet address	http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/InteractionLab/INLG2016/

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