Selcuk Acar

This research project aims to develop a new instrument and a computer application that measures original thinking among late-elementary students (Grades 3-5) through automated scoring. The Measurement of Original Thinking in Elementary Students (MOTES) will adopt text-mining models that have been tested only with adults and test their use with elementary students. Measuring original thinking in children has a long history. However, manual scoring of existing original thinking tests limits th...