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Duygu Bektik holds a Ph.D. in Learning Analytics from The Open University, UK. Her Ph.D. focuses on the use of writing analytics, particularly automated analysis of meta-discourse in student writing, to support tutors’ essay assessment practices. She is currently acting as a postdoctoral researcher at The Open University, UK. Her research interests currently lie primarily in the fields of learning analytics, data visualisation, and e-assessment.
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February 2017 - present
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September 2012 - September 2016
September 2011 - August 2012
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When assessing student essays, educators look for the students’
ability to present and pursue well-reasoned and strong arguments.
Such scholarly argumentation is often articulated by rhetorical
metadiscourse. Educators will be necessarily examining
metadiscourse in students’ writing as signals of the intellectual
moves that make their reasoning vis...
This paper describes a novel analytics dashboard which visualises the key features of scholarly documents. The Dashboard aggregates the salient sentences of scholarly papers, their rhetorical types and the key concepts mentioned within these sentences. These features are extracted from papers through a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technology,...
Effective written communication is an essential skill which promotes educational success for undergraduates. One of the key requirements of good academic writing in higher education is that students must develop a critical mind and learn how to construct sound arguments in their discipline. Writing analytics focuses on the measurement and analysis...
Effective written communication is an essential skill which promotes educational success for undergraduates. However, undergraduate students, especially those in their first year at university, are unused to this form of writing. After their long experience with the schoolroom essay, for most undergraduates academic writing development is painstaki...
In this presentation, we will discuss a pilot study (carried out at seven universities across Europe including the Open University and involving more than 300 students) which investigated a prototype online assessment authentication system currently in development by the EU-funded TeSLA project (http://tesla-project.eu, EU H2020 Grant Agreement: 68...
Writing Analytics focuses on the measurement and analysis of written texts for the purpose of understanding writing processes and products, in their educational contexts, and improving the teaching and learning of writing. This workshop adopts a critical, holistic perspective in which the definition of "the system" and "success" is not restricted t...
