How does WriteToLearn work?
WriteToLearn contains a Reading Comprehension Component and an Essay Component. Both components use the Knowledge Analysis Technologies (KAT) engine, a patented technology based on over twenty years of research and development. The KAT engine is based on the mathematical approach known as Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), which provides a sophisticated computer analysis of text. The Reading Comprehension Component assesses the total content of a summary as well as the correlation between the summary content and that of the original reading passage. It compares the student’s entire summary to each section of the assigned reading and returns feedback indicating how well the information in each section has been covered by the student’s summary. The Essay Component assesses the total content of an essay as well as the correlation between the essay’s content and that of training essays previously scored by expert human readers. The Essay Component assigns a score to each essay based in part o
