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Table 3 Performance measures for EvoGrader for ACORNS (n = 1100 written explanations) and ACORNS-like written responses (n = 1100 written resppnses) (n = 2200 total written explanations)

From: EvoGrader: an online formative assessment tool for automatically evaluating written evolutionary explanations

  

Concept frequency (%)

Kappa

Agreement (%)

Precision

Recall

F1

Concept type

Concept

ACORNS

ACORNS-like

ACORNS

ACORNS-like

ACORNS

ACORNS-like

ACORNS

ACORNS-like

ACORNS

ACORNS-like

ACORNS

ACORNS-like

Normative scientific idea

Variation

35.3

21.5

0.903

0.822

95.6

94.4

97.0

93.9

90.5

78.8

93.6

85.7

Heritability

14.7

22.3

0.879

0.852

97.1

95.2

95.1

97.5

84.6

80.4

89.5

88.1

Competition

1.6

2.2

0.971

0.932

99.9

99.7

100.0

100.0

94.4

87.5

97.1

93.3

Limited resources

20.5

22.4

0.944

0.806

98.2

93.9

96.4

99.4

94.7

73.2

95.5

84.3

Differential survival

46.2

55.8

0.855

0.851

92.8

92.6

93.2

94.6

91.1

92.0

92.1

93.3

Non-adaptive idea

3.0

0.1

0.984

1.000

99.9

100.0

100.0

100.0

97.0

100.0

98.5

100.0

Non-normative naïve idea

Need/Goal

22.8

29.0

0.849

0.871

94.7

94.8

89.4

95.2

87.3

86.5

88.3

90.6

Use/Disuse

4.1

4.3

0.848

0.653

98.8

97.4

86.4

72.5

84.4

61.7

85.4

66.7

Adapt/Acclimation

10.6

9.7

0.718

0.651

94.7

95.1

76.1

94.9

73.5

52.3

74.8

67.5