Martin Cordero

• PhD
• Head of Department at National University of Distance Education

The purpose of this article is to validate, through two empirical studies, a new method for automatic evaluation of written texts, called Inbuilt Rubric, based on the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) technique, which constitutes an innovative and distinct turn with respect to LSA application so far. In the first empirical study, evidence of the valid...

A latent semantic analysis-based automated summary assessment is described; this automated system is applied to a real learning from text task in a Distance Education context. We comment on the use of automated content, plagiarism, text coherence measures, and word weights average and their impact on predicting human judges summary scoring. A first...

Este estudio se centra en la influencia del contenido de la tarea en problemas de razonamiento deductivo. Se utilizaron cuatro tareas diferentes: de razonamiento proposicional, usando diferentes tipos de conectivas lógicas, silogismos lineales o series de tres términos, silogismos categoriales y la tarea selección de Wason. Para cada una de las tar...

A short instruction programme on text comprehension is described The programme is based on training active text processing strategies; in particular. identifying the main ideas in a text and constructing an outline. Results are evaluated using two different methods of analysing free-recall protocols: one by W. Kintsch. and another developed by the...

Bibliografía: p. 174-192 Diseñar un programa de intervención en la mejora de la comprensión de textos que conjugue la actuación sobre el texto y sobre los sujetos. Este programa debe estar teóricamente fundado tanto en lo que se refiere a sobre qué intervenir, ayudas sobre el texto y estrategias del sujeto, como a la forma y método concreto en que...