eRevise+RF: A Writing Evaluation System for Assessing Student Essay Revisions and Providing Formative Feedback

Zhexiong Liu, Diane Litman, Elaine L Wang, Tianwen Li, Mason Gobat, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, Richard Correnti


Abstract
The ability to revise essays in response to feedback is important for students’ writing success. An automated writing evaluation (AWE) system that supports students in revising their essays is thus essential. We present eRevise+RF, an enhanced AWE system for assessing student essay revisions (e.g., changes made to an essay to improve its quality in response to essay feedback) and providing revision feedback. We deployed the system with 6 teachers and 406 students across 3 schools in Pennsylvania and Louisiana. The results confirmed its effectiveness in (1) assessing student essays in terms of evidence usage, (2) extracting evidence and reasoning revisions across essays, and (3) determining revision success in responding to feedback. The evaluation also suggested eRevise+RF is a helpful system for young students to improve their argumentative writing skills through revision and formative feedback.
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2025.naacl-demo.18
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Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (System Demonstrations)
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April
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2025
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Nouha Dziri, Sean (Xiang) Ren, Shizhe Diao
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NAACL | WS
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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173–190
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Zhexiong Liu, Diane Litman, Elaine L Wang, Tianwen Li, Mason Gobat, Lindsay Clare Matsumura, and Richard Correnti. 2025. eRevise+RF: A Writing Evaluation System for Assessing Student Essay Revisions and Providing Formative Feedback. In Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (System Demonstrations), pages 173–190, Albuquerque, New Mexico. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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eRevise+RF: A Writing Evaluation System for Assessing Student Essay Revisions and Providing Formative Feedback (Liu et al., NAACL 2025)
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