Author Archives: sterett mercer

PCRC 2020 – Automated Text. Eval. for Progress Monitoring

Supporting materials for the following presentation are linked here.

Mercer, S. H., & Cannon, J. E. (2020, February). Monitoring the written expression gains of learners during intensive writing intervention. Poster presented at the Pacific Coast Research Conference, Coronado, CA, USA.

  1. Here is a copy of the poster: PCRC 2020 – Auto Text Eval Progress Monitoring

PCRC 2020 Poster – Automated Text. Eval. for Screening

Supporting materials for the following presentation are linked here.

Mercer, S. H., Keller-Margulis, M. A., & Matta, M. (2020, February). Validity of automated vs. hand-scored written expression curriculum-based measurement samples. Poster presented at the Pacific Coast Research Conference, Coronado, CA, USA.

  1. Here is a copy of the poster: PCRC 2020 – auto text eval screening

CSSE 2019 Presentation Paper and Slides

Slides and the paper for the following presentation at the Canadian Society for the Study of Education (2019) conference are linked below.

Mercer, S. H., Tsiriotakis, I., Kwon, E., & Cannon, J. E. (2019, June). Evaluating elementary students’ response to intervention in written expression. Paper presented at the meeting of the Canadian Association for Educational Psychology (Canadian Society of the Study of Education), Vancouver, BC, Canada.

Download slides: 2019 CSSE Presentation final

Download paper: CSSE 2019 paper

Paper on reading fluency intervention in French

This paper recently published in Canadian Journal of School Psychology shows that reading fluency intervention in French improved English reading skills for Grade 3 students in a French immersion program. The full paper can be viewed here: Archambault et al author version

Archambault, C., Mercer, S. H., Cheng, M. P., & Saqui, S. (in press). Lire en Français: Cross-linguistic effects of reading fluency interventions in French immersion programs. Canadian Journal of School Psychology. doi:10.1177/0829573518757790

Paper on automated text evaluation

This paper recently published in Learning Disability Quarterly shows that computer scoring of writing samples performs as well as hand scoring for students in grades 2-5. The full paper can be viewed here: Mercer et al LDQ automated text evaluation.

Mercer, S. H., Keller-Margulis, M. A., Faith, E. L., Reid, E. K., & Ochs, S. (in press). The potential for automated text evaluation to improve the technical adequacy of written expression curriculum-based measurement. Learning Disability Quarterly.