Essay content - to remove the word limit for instant feedback

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What is "(expert) support for keyword phrases"?

You left out the clue. You can use so called regular expressions. They are a standardized way of defining patterns. So yes, you can probably also detect possessives in a generic way. However, I will definitely not implement something like a graphical editor for composing regular expressions, although some may want to use them but think they're to complicated. That's why I added "expert".

Could we get you to maybe pen a blog re what you mean by Behaviorist Teaching and what you would use instead of keywords?

There's a nice video which demonstrates what pure "behaviorist teaching might look like. Behaviorist theories can explain some aspects of learning, but not all of them if you follow the ideas of cognitivism/constructivism in learning psychology. Simple tools such as quizzes are great (and there's still lot's of room for improvement, e.g. discrete option multiple choice tests or n-tier questions) to foster knowing of comprehending, but it'll be hard to help with evaluating (which often involves norms and doesn't fit into right-wrong-categories). Yes, those were the poles of the classic Bloom's taxonomy of learning domains. That's why I asked for cooperative and/or collaborative and/or competitive options for H5P quite some time ago to have additional options. Don't get me wrong, I believe that the tools that H5P offer are great and I see a lot potential for even more stuff (that's why I'm working on it :-)), but they are still tools. They work well for a particular purpose but not for others. Some people coined the term "toolification". It describes the extensive use of tools for things they are not suitable for -- but they're so shiny, easy to use, cheap, ...

Using the scoring system might give you the illusion that you could judge a text just by checking for certain keywords. On the one hand, it's not possible to grasp the essence of a text just by parsing it for words, and on the other hand you could also write bogus and still get point -- just because you entered the "correct" words. Instead of writing a decent text, you might rather be adjusting your writing to the algorithm. Axel Krommer calls this Wii-effect, because it's similar to playing tennis on a Nintendo Wii -- you're not learning to play tennis, but to mimic motions that the game console accepts as tennis movements.

Analyzing a text using machine learning algorithms would be superior (after sufficient training), that's what I intended to do with essay -- I never hid that the current version is just an experiment. However, even this more sophisticated solution would have its flaws.

Gamification is often reduced to points, badges and leaderboards -- hence there's even a common abbreviation for it: PBL. In general however, gamification is far more and rather "thinking like a game designer". You should be more concerned about thinking about your "audience" first, about how people should progress, etc. Painting your car red won't make it a Ferrari just as slapping points onto somthing won't make this something "gamified" (or very very faintly at best). Also, gamification is not a guarentee for more engagement, motivation, etc. and can even have the opposite effect. If you're interested, you might want to check out the Gamification course by Kevin Werbach for example.

Of course, good feedback or creating good learning content is labor intensive! As is becoming good at tennis (which you cannot learn by playing tennis on a Nintendo Wii), as is cooking great meals (which you cannot replace with having a microwave oven), etc. In my humble opinion, having the scoring system in place may lead to having the illusion of being able to "judge" the quality of the text. Quizzes are not a shortcut.

And of course, you can always find one single aspect or effect on learning in papers, but those are isolated most of the time and ignore the big picture of learning.

Wow, that post got long, and it's not even structrued well or thought through. Hope it helps nevertheless.

Best,
Oliver