CohMetrix Model 2c Variable Importance - shmercer/writeAlizer GitHub Wiki
Ensemble Weightings and Metric Importance
Coh-Metrix Model 2c
This model used Coh-Metrix scores from 7 min narrative writing samples ("I once had a magic pencil and ...") from 124 students in the spring of Grades 2-5 (Mercer et al., 2019) to predict holistic writing quality on the samples (elo ratings calculated from paired comparisons).
Highly correlated Coh-Metrix metrics (r > |.90|) were excluded during pre-processing (see section on Scoring Model Development for more details).
Mercer, S. H., Keller-Margulis, M. A., Faith, E. L., Reid, E. K., & Ochs, S. (2019). The potential for automated text evaluation to improve the technical adequacy of written expression curriculum-based measurement. Learning Disability Quarterly, 42, 117-128. https://doi.org/10.1177/0731948718803296
Algorithm Weightings in Ensemble
Abbreviations:
- all = ensemble model
- pls = partial least squares regression
- mars = bagged multivariate adaptive regression splines
- gbm = stochastic gradient boosted trees
- svm = support vector machines
The table below presents the linear weightings of each algorithm for the ensemble model.
Intercept | pls | mars | gbm | svm |
---|---|---|---|---|
-10.8192 | 0.0374 | 0.2735 | 0.243 | 0.5377 |
Metric Importance in Each Algorithm and Ensemble
Each column sums to 100 (so values can be interpreted as % contribution to the model).
Detailed information on Coh-Metrix abbreviations and indices is available here.
Metric | overall | pls | mars | gbm | svm |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
DESWC | 22.58 | 5.76 | 48.45 | 37.37 | 3.91 |
WRDVERB | 7.27 | 1.88 | 23.22 | 2.92 | 1.5 |
DESWLltd | 5.72 | 1.75 | 16.17 | 3.85 | 1.53 |
CRFCWOa | 4.57 | 1.9 | 12.16 | 1.14 | 2.44 |
PCNARp | 2.04 | 2.72 | 0 | 3.23 | 2.49 |
PCDCz | 1.78 | 1.05 | 0 | 3.24 | 2.07 |
CRFANPa | 1.67 | 1.23 | 0 | 2.21 | 2.3 |
LSASS1d | 1.67 | 1.5 | 0 | 1.62 | 2.56 |
WRDHYPn | 1.59 | 2.38 | 0 | 3.29 | 1.58 |
SYNSTRUTa | 1.59 | 1.74 | 0 | 1.28 | 2.54 |
LDMTLD | 1.57 | 1.79 | 0 | 2.47 | 1.95 |
LSAGN | 1.57 | 1.72 | 0 | 1.17 | 2.55 |
SMCAUSvp | 1.53 | 0.97 | 0 | 1.91 | 2.17 |
DESSLd | 1.52 | 0.87 | 0 | 1.28 | 2.45 |
LSAGNd | 1.49 | 2.29 | 0 | 0.11 | 2.81 |
WRDFRQmc | 1.41 | 2.04 | 0 | 1.45 | 2.06 |
DESPL | 1.41 | 3.29 | 0 | 0.85 | 2.25 |
PCVERBz | 1.25 | 1.73 | 0 | 0.62 | 2.13 |
SYNMEDpos | 1.24 | 1.78 | 0 | 0.72 | 2.08 |
LSASSp | 1.22 | 1.97 | 0 | 0.13 | 2.28 |
SMCAUSv | 1.16 | 0.91 | 0 | 1.16 | 1.78 |
CRFCWO1d | 1.15 | 1.54 | 0 | 0.21 | 2.14 |
SMCAUSwn | 1.09 | 2.26 | 0 | 0.94 | 1.63 |
CNCTempx | 1.08 | 0.26 | 0 | 0.57 | 1.92 |
WRDHYPv | 1.06 | 2.37 | 0 | 1.41 | 1.36 |
SMCAUSlsa | 1.03 | 1.59 | 0 | 1.07 | 1.5 |
WRDNOUN | 1 | 2.13 | 0 | 1.68 | 1.11 |
PCDCp | 1 | 1.81 | 0 | 0.23 | 1.8 |
PCVERBp | 0.93 | 1.09 | 0 | 0.05 | 1.79 |
PCTEMPp | 0.92 | 1.68 | 0 | 0.51 | 1.52 |
LDTTRc | 0.9 | 1.26 | 0 | 1.34 | 1.14 |
WRDPRP3s | 0.87 | 1.36 | 0 | 1.67 | 0.92 |
DESWLlt | 0.85 | 2.05 | 0 | 1.12 | 1.07 |
CNCTemp | 0.85 | 0.85 | 0 | 0.9 | 1.27 |
RDL2 | 0.84 | 2.17 | 0 | 0.54 | 1.31 |
DRPP | 0.83 | 1.78 | 0 | 1.37 | 0.94 |
PCCNCz | 0.8 | 1.87 | 0 | 0.31 | 1.35 |
DRNP | 0.8 | 1.62 | 0 | 0.79 | 1.16 |
LDTTRa | 0.79 | 2.31 | 0 | 0.24 | 1.34 |
WRDAOAc | 0.78 | 0.69 | 0 | 0.78 | 1.17 |
RDFKGL | 0.73 | 2.06 | 0 | 0.13 | 1.27 |
SYNNP | 0.68 | 0.65 | 0 | 0.24 | 1.23 |
CNCPos | 0.68 | 0.82 | 0 | 0.67 | 1.03 |
CNCCaus | 0.67 | 0.73 | 0 | 0.63 | 1.02 |
WRDADV | 0.67 | 1.9 | 0 | 0.66 | 0.93 |
PCSYNz | 0.66 | 1.76 | 0 | 0.33 | 1.07 |
WRDPRO | 0.64 | 0.73 | 0 | 0.9 | 0.84 |
CNCLogic | 0.64 | 0.41 | 0 | 0.71 | 0.95 |
PCCNCp | 0.64 | 1.15 | 0 | 0 | 1.22 |
DRVP | 0.63 | 0.79 | 0 | 0.32 | 1.08 |
WRDADJ | 0.62 | 1.12 | 0 | 0.38 | 1 |
SMINTEp | 0.62 | 1.06 | 0 | 0.53 | 0.95 |
DRNEG | 0.6 | 0.73 | 0 | 0.06 | 1.13 |
WRDPOLc | 0.6 | 0.89 | 0 | 0.61 | 0.88 |
WRDHYPnv | 0.58 | 0.02 | 0 | 0.17 | 1.09 |
WRDFRQa | 0.58 | 0.36 | 0 | 0.35 | 0.99 |
SYNLE | 0.57 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.62 | 0.87 |
SMCAUSr | 0.56 | 0.05 | 0 | 0.3 | 1 |
DRAP | 0.55 | 1.23 | 0 | 0.32 | 0.89 |
PCREFz | 0.53 | 1.2 | 0 | 0.46 | 0.78 |
DESWLsy | 0.5 | 0.85 | 0 | 0.43 | 0.76 |
WRDMEAc | 0.49 | 0.68 | 0 | 0.7 | 0.63 |
PCSYNp | 0.48 | 1.45 | 0 | 0.02 | 0.86 |
CNCADC | 0.46 | 1.61 | 0 | 0.41 | 0.63 |
WRDFRQc | 0.42 | 0.3 | 0 | 0.83 | 0.45 |
WRDCNCc | 0.39 | 1.3 | 0 | 0.39 | 0.53 |
DESWLsyd | 0.39 | 0.32 | 0 | 0.33 | 0.63 |
SMINTEr | 0.26 | 0.37 | 0 | 0.11 | 0.44 |
PCCONNz | 0.23 | 0.53 | 0 | 0.23 | 0.32 |
PCREFp | 0.23 | 0.32 | 0 | 0.01 | 0.44 |
WRDFAMc | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.24 | 0.09 |
CRFNO1 | 0.09 | 0.98 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.08 |
PCCONNp | 0.08 | 1.18 | 0 | 0.04 | 0.06 |
WRDPRP3p | 0.02 | 0.44 | 0 | 0.03 | 0 |