Searching for Explanations in Science Trade Books: What can we learn from Coh-Metrix?

Evaluation of Geography Textbooks in Terms of Misconceptions about Climate Topic

“…In addition, research studies have revealed that the textbooks used in schools include insufficient or sometimes inaccurate information (Román and Busch, 2015). Textbooks have also been criticized because of merely focusing on the descriptions of facts, rather than explanations with a particular focus on cause, condition, and consequence (Smolkin, McTigue and Yeh, 2011), promoting memorization instead of critical thinking (National Research Council 1990). Some of the problems associated with geography books include the facts that they are not produced by experts and are generally published for commercial purposes.…”

CRIE: An automated analyzer for Chinese texts

“…Automated essay scoring systems must also make use of a large volume of texts in order to carry out accurate assessments of essay grades (Attali & Burstein, 2006;Burstein, 2003;Foltz, Laham, & Landauer, 1999;Rudner & Liang, 2002). Some researchers have investigated how scientific texts address causal relationships by analyzing these texts using linguistic features that are designed to clarify the causal relationships in language expression (Smolkin, McTigue, & Yeh, 2013). All such research relies on text analyzers that can cope with a large volume of text and a large number of features.…”