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Essay Grading Software For Teachers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sounds-better-my-12th-grade-teacher dept.

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."'"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp!

  2. applications for slashdot comments by FryGuy1013 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm sure that there's more than enough corpus of comments for "professional readers" to give this system enough data, because a lot of people post on slashdot.

    In summary, my post will get +5 Insightful based on this fabulous rating software because Natalie Portman likes grits eating goatse.cx (I need to get features of other comments in there!)

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    bananas like monkeys.
  3. First post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FP. I teachers who don't know how to teach English don't know how to grade essays anyways.

    AP

  4. It's a touchy subject by mao+che+minh · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    A lot of people that have the intelligence to debate subjects ranging from the intricacies of memory management in operating systems to the effects that the the Michelson-Morley experiment had on the realm of physics (as many here on Slashdot can) probably cherish good grammar and composition. I know I do. All I have to do is flip the channel to MTV and listen to today's youth (many of whom are older than I am) speak, or read an 11th grader's essay, and I begin to feel that we are slipping greatly in the subject of English.

    I sometimes wonder how so many people, who are products of our education system, can be so painfully inadequate when it comes to the simple act of composing a sentence.

  5. Imagine.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    a Beowulf cluster of these.

    You were thinking it, but only I had the courage to say it.

  6. You may not have gotten first post by Best+Post · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    BUT YOU GOT BEST POST.

  7. next topic please by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I already have a lot of comments ready!

  8. HanzoSan is in the 99.7 percentile! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've met people who are truely smarter than me, but these people are rare. Take Bobby Fischer, I would never challenge that man to chess, hes just smarter than me when it comes to these things, but I did better in school than he did.

  9. Re:HanzoSan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well I'm Dirty Sanchez and imma bust both yo nutz

  10. Re:Very funny rusty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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