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WrAFT: A Modularized Automated Writing Evaluation System for Argumentative Essays

Jul 17, 2026

WrAFT is a modular automated writing evaluation system designed to score and provide feedback on argumentative essays. It achieves state-of-the-art scoring performance (QWK 0.84, RMSE 0.44) on a TOEFL benchmark and receives high human approval ratings for its feedback (over 93%). The system leverages LLMs such as LLaMA-3.3-70B-Instruct, GPT-4o, and Claude 3.7, and is publicly available for use.

Why it matters: WrAFT demonstrates a significant advance in automated essay evaluation by modularizing LLMs for both accurate scoring and high-quality feedback, with practical applications in education.

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