Research Report Automated Essay Scoring With E-rater® v.2.0 Yigal Attali Jill Burstein Research & Development November 2005 RR-04-45 Automated Essay Scoring With E-rater® v.2.0 Yigal Attali and Jill Burstein ETS, Princeton, NJ November 2005 As part of its educational and social mission and in fulfilling the organization 's nonprofit charter and bylaws, ETS has and continues to learn from and also to lead research that furthers educational and measurement research to advance
recently, researchers have explored language use as a method for delineating personality styles. Kwantes, Derbentseva, Lam, Vartanian, and Marmurek (2016) sought to assess whether personality traits were identifiable based on participants’ written essays. Their study provides helpful results and indicates critical areas for future research design. Kwantes et al. (2016) built upon classic personality trait research by Allport and Odbert (1936) and Cattell (1943), further refined by Goldberg (1990)