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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."'"
I for one welcome our automated essay-correcting overlords.
Nope, robots will soon do it all.
SAILING MISHAP
If they're going to use a computer to judge the content, than I'm not going to hesitate to use a computer to write my essay.
We need some laws:
Grading software may not injure a human being's GPA or, through inaction, allow a human being's GPA to come to harm.
Grading software must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
Grading software must copy protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
What we need is software that grabs essays off the internet and runs them through the grading software and the cheating detection software, thus gauranteeing an 'A'.
Then we can truly achieve the goal of "knowledge passing from lecturer to paper without passing through any brains".
The only problem is that the machines might achieve intelligence. That must be avoided at all costs. To that end, all students and professors will be equipped with rifles or pistols to take out the machines if necessary. Potential students will be asked to specify weapons preference on their applications.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
It's spelled "evidently".
He just gives everyone a B when he is hungover.
no more or less so than published work.
I, too, am jaded by the stupid grammar and spelling police
the students will get a copy for themselves?
The Signal/Noise ratio can be improved in two ways. Remaining silent is the OTHER way.
Er, I'll save you moderators the trouble. -1, Flamebait. And a grammar flame to boot. With grammatical errors in it. I deserve modding down. I probably deserve worse. But I must speak.
If you do know English te word grammar checker should be used to write perfect technical papers. Its possible to write perfect technical papers, I do it all the time in college, its like standard here if you want an A.
This makes me want to weep. Did you intend it ironically?
"Its"? Twice?(!) A run-on sentence bragging about your prowess at grammar? Redundancy, incorrect capitalization, a typographical error, punctuation errors, and errors I don't know the name of?
Mind you, my grammar ain't perfect, even in this post. That last paragraph was nothing but sentence framents. I'm just saying I really, really hope you did that on purpose.
If not, shut the hell up about your perfect technical papers, 'kay?
Um...as opposed to English Comp classes in general?
"Hardly used" will not fetch you a better price for your brain.
Teacher: Johnny, I'm really sorry, but the computer crashed while your paper was being scored. I was looking over it. It's been a while since I've read a paper, but I was wondering what the following sentence means:
And this one:
Is that some kind of new language that kids are using? Oh, by the way, congratulations, you got a 100 on EVERY essay this semester! Good job!
This is a great leap forward for education. While it has always been the goal of geeks to submit computer-generated papers and receive decent grades, this has traditionally been hampered by the unreliability of computer-to-human communication. But with computer-to-computer submissions (henceforth referred to as "End-to-end Grading And Direction", or EGAD), we can now begin hacking away at the first generation of grade generators.
"What I did on my Summer Vaca'; DROP TABLE punctuation"
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I believe that would be "from the sounds-better-THAN-my-12th-grade-teacher dept."
if you're so smart how come you jumped headlong into an argument with someone nicknamed "Gay Nigger"
how about you have the nuts to say that to me on K5
YHBT! I'm pwyshall!