Christopher Nicklin
Temple University
14 Papers
Christopher Nicklin is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Computer science & Vocabulary. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications.
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Papers
Assessing Rasch measurement estimation methods across R packages with yes/no vocabulary test data
TL;DR: ERm, a CMLE-based R package, was utilized to conduct a dichotomous Rasch analysis of a Yes/No vocabulary test based on the academic word list and the resulting parameters and diagnostic statistics were compared with the equivalent results from four other R-based Rasch measurement software packages and Winsteps.
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L2 self-paced reading data collection across three contexts: In-person, online, and crowdsourcing
TL;DR: This article investigated the replicability, data quality, and logistical difficulties experienced in two self-paced reading online data gathering contexts (crowdsourcing and online students) and compared them to an in-person baseline from a previous study.
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‘The wisdom of crowds’: When teacher judgments outperform word-frequency as a predictor of students’ vocabulary knowledge
Pablo Robles-García,Jeffrey Stewart,Christopher Nicklin,Joseph P. Vitta,Stuart McLean,Brandon Kramer +5 more
TL;DR: This article investigated the effectiveness of word-frequency and teacher judgments in determining students' vocabulary knowledge and compared the predictive powers of both approaches when estimating vocabulary knowledge, finding that the combination of teachers' judgments displayed a stronger relationship with students' performance on the vocabulary test than frequency.
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Can we reliably score meaning recall vocabulary tests using AI? a comparison of human vs. AI scoring
Jeffrey Stewart,Laurence Anthony,Aaron Olaf Batty,Christopher Nicklin,Stuart McLean,Kanako Tomaru +5 more
The contribution of affixes to productive English vocabulary knowledge for Chinese, German and Spanish learners: A comparison
Jeffrey Stewart,Dale M. Brown,Phil Bennett,Pablo Robles-García,Claudia H. Sánchez-Gutiérrez,Nausica Marcos Miguel,Joseph P. Vitta,Christopher Nicklin,Tim Stoeckel,Stuart McLean +9 more
TL;DR: This article found that learners' knowledge of English affixes is a factor contributing to L2 learners' difficulty in producing English words, and that the difficulty of affix extraction depends on learner L1.