A Comparative Study on the Influence of Automated Evaluation System and Teacher Grading on Students' English Writing

摘要

This paper studies the influence of Writing Roadmap~(TM) 2.0 (WRM) and teacher grading on student A and Student B respectively. By comparing the grades of pre-tests of both students, we found that, in the post-test essays, student A demonstrated much achievement in word choice, fluency and conventions while student B showed little improvement in these three dimensions. Compared with student B, student A's essay was superior to that of student B in the above three dimensions as well. The comparative research indicates that the feedback given by the WRM helped student A improve his writing proficiency effectively, especially in word choice, syntax, spelling and grammar. But the system couldn't provide student A with enough feedback and revision suggestions on ideas and contents as well as organization. On the contrary, the global scoring adopted by the teacher could only provide student B with limited feedback, thus was of little help to improve his writing quality.