Automating assessment of collaborative writing quality in multiple stages: the case of wiki

Abstract

This study attempts to investigate to what extent indicators of academic writing and cognitive thinking can help measure the writing quality of group collaborative writings on Wikis. Particularly, comparisons were made on Wiki content in different stages of the projects. Preliminary results from a multiple linear regression analysis reveal that linguistic indicators such as engagement markers and self-mention were significant predictors in earlier stages to the projects, whereas verbs indicating cognitive thinking in the evaluation level were significant in later project stages.