Recent work completed by Dr. Megan Shiroda was featured in an Advances in Physiology Education podcast.  Megan discusses her research using lexical diversity measures to examine how student written explanations change due to assessment item context.  Further, Megan shows that as students' use higher level reasoning with principles in physiology, their explanations converge despite having different item contexts.

Check out the podcast here  https://apspublicationspodcast.podbean.com/e/reasoning-level-and-item-context-affect-student-language/ 

Or check out the full research paper here:  https://doi.org/10.1152/advan.00156.2022