Introduction: Adaptive learning opportunities and individualized, timely feedback are considered to be effective support measures for students' writing in educational contexts. However, the extensive time and expertise required to analyze numerous drafts of student writing pose a barrier to teaching. Automated writing evaluation (AWE) tools can be used for individual feedback based on advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology. A number of primary (quasi-)experimental studies have investigated the effect of AWE feedback on students' writing performance. Methods: = 2, 828) met the pre-specified inclusion criteria. A moderator analysis investigated the impact of the characteristics of the learner, the intervention, and the outcome measures. Results: = 0.55) of automated feedback on students' writing performance. However, the significant heterogeneity in the data indicates that the use of automated feedback tools cannot be understood as a single consistent form of intervention. Even though for some of the moderators we found substantial differences in effect sizes, none of the subgroup comparisons were statistically significant. Discussion: We discuss these findings in light of automated feedback use in educational practice and give recommendations for future research.
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