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Table 4 Pared comparison of AWE and TF across CALF measures

From: The effects of automatic writing evaluation and teacher-focused feedback on CALF measures and overall quality of L2 writing across different genres

Complexity measures

Group

N

M

SD

F

Sig.

Paired comparisons

Partial η2

Lexical diversity

AWE

25

19.30

1.12

13.24

0.000

AWE > TF

0.81

TF

28

19.26

1.02

syntactic complexity: mean length of clauses/total clauses

AWE

25

1.29

0.95

45.05

0.01

AWE > TF

0.83

TF

28

1.14

1.23

Syntactic complexity: mean length of t-units/total t-units

AWE

25

0.54

1.04

23.87

0.09

AWE = TF

0.79

TF

28

0.54

1.01

Accuracy

AWE

25

0.73

1.09

15.43

0.07

AWE = TF

0.71

TF

28

0.72

0.46

Fluency

AWE

25

256.5

0.67

7.61

0.00

TF > AWE

0.77

TF

28

253.5

0.54