Text analysis in education: a review of selected software packages with an application for analysing students’ conceptual understanding

Using text analysis, computers can find patterns to determine and extract useful information from a set of text. Exploiting the capabilities of text analysis software can efficiently provide educators with the ability to analyse students’ answers and make better judgement on their performance. Such ability would otherwise be impossible to practically gain, especially for large classes. Because of the availability of a wide range of text analysis...