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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 couldn't? Who the fuck do you think you are that you can make a statement like that about me?
My point is, you didnt learn English in school.
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?
If you did its because you taught yourself English by reading alot of books. You didnt learn it by practice and I say you most likely wrote poor English papers in college because you yourself said you didnt practice writing all through highschool, everyone knows that humans get rusty at thinga when they dont practice for 4-5 years.
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> We have had Dali, Sagan, Kip Thorne, Hawkin, Poe, Twain, Sigmund Frued, Einstein,
uhuh.
> Torvalds,
Who?
I like Linus as much as the next guy, but he doesn't belong in this list.
> the great minds of our past century and a half, I find them equal.
FYI: Poe's been dead for 154 years.
> We have harnessed fusion,
Nope.
> mapped the genome,
Only a few months ago, and I don't believe that it's been independently reviewed as of yet.
> created antibiotics,
s/created/discovered/
> peered deep into the hearts of galaxies a 100,000,000 light years away,
Nope, we haven't done that.
> forged fiber optics,
That word, forged, I do not think it means what you think it means.
> designed the integrated circuit,
Well, there you go, you got one. Well done.
>People three hundred years from now will look back upon us and wonder how a civilization that
>could barely put a man on the moon (a feat that will surely be trivial to them)
Yes, of course. Flying cars.
If you understand the technical side, you can interpret anything, it just may take you longer.
If you dont understand the technical side you wont even be able to read a sentence.
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Here is your grade inflation research straight from the university of texas.f lation/Inflation.html
http://www.utexas.edu/student/research/reports/In
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But if that's not what you mean, I'm going to take umbrage at that--education is VERY important to me, and I think I have spent a very focused four years learning as much as I can. I may not have a 4.0 GPA, but I have learned a great deal.
;) (joking)
To some people, school is everything.
I take a different tack--I'm the smartest, and all those fools who work harder than me just have to work so hard because they don't have the brains I do
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.
Intelligence does not mean you'll have intelligence in areas that matter or they you'll be well rounded. I've met alot of people with photographic memories, literally can remember every detail of something they just glance at, who failed in school.
Just because you are intelligent does not mean you know what to do with this intelligence or how to use it to your advantage.
Do I think Bush could have gotten a 1500? I think he should have, why didnt he? I guess he cant. I mean he went to the best schools, he had tutors, he studied all his life for it and still didnt get a 1500, this is why I call him an idiot, a moron etc.
I know he has dyslexia, but he also had the money to hire tutors, whats his problem?
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