Essay Grading Software For Teachers

asjk writes "Software to help teachers with grading has been around for sometime. This is true even with respect to grading essays. A new tool, called Criteria, will look at grammar, usage, and even style and organization. It works by being trained by at least 450 essays scored by two professionals. The difference this time? Here is a snip from the article: '"There's a lot of skepticism," Dr. Spatola said. "The people opposed see it dehumanizing the student's papers, putting them through some sort of mechanical, computerized system like the multiple choice tests. That's really not the case, because we're not talking about eliminating the human element. We're making the process more efficient."'"

Comments

Good, this is what people need.

[HanzoSan]

I'm sick of rich upper class morons buying and pandering their way through school. If we used computers to do all the grading there is no way George W Bush would have made it through highschool and I'm damn sure he wouldnt have got a degree from Yale.

Teachers like politicians can be bribed, and the problem with this is, he who has the money or power gets the A.

Re:Go to a better school.

[evilquaker]

Yes and thats why when you got to college you couldnt write a good research paper.

I couldn't? Who the fuck do you think you are that you can make a statement like that about me?

You are supposed to learn English through highschool as well, if you want to get a 1500+ on your SATs.

Actually, I did get 1500s on my SATs, thank you very much. But if you say that I couldn't have, well then who am I to argue?