DREsS: Dataset for Rubric-based Essay Scoring on EFL Writing
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Workshop: The First Workshop on Large Foundation Models for Educational Assessment
Abstract
Automated essay scoring (AES) is a useful tool in English as a Foreign Language (EFL) writing education, offering real-time essay scores for students and instructors. However, previous AES models were trained on essays and scores irrelevant to the practical scenarios of EFL writing education and usually provided a single holistic score due to the lack of appropriate datasets. In this paper, we release DREsS, a large-scale, standard dataset for rubric-based automated essay scoring. DREsS comprises three sub-datasets: DREsSNew, DREsSStd., and DREsSCASE. We collect DREsSNew, a real-classroom dataset with 2.3K essays authored by EFL undergraduate students and scored by English education experts. We also standardize existing rubric-based essay scoring datasets as DREsSStd. We suggest CASE, a corruption-based augmentation strategy for essays, which generates 40.1K synthetic samples of DREsSCASE and improves the baseline results by 45.44%. DREsS will enable further research to provide a more accurate and practical AES system for EFL writing education.