Indiana First With Computerized Grading

Posted by michael on Thursday May 20, 2004 @05:00AM from the replaced-by-a-small-shell-script dept.

Mz6 writes "Computerized grading has been talked about previously, however, the New York Times reports that Indiana has become the first state to grade high school English essays by computer. The computerized grading process, called 'e-rater', uses a 6-point rating scale and uses artificial intelligence to 'mimic the grading process of human readers'. The system was tested over a 2-year pilot program and produced results virtually identical to those of trained readers. The big question is, will other states begin to emulate Indiana by tossing human grading?"

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But.. by abscondment · 2004-05-20 05:09 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Some idiot will figure out how to trick the program and we'll have gobs of script kiddies getting A's in English, when in reality they write so poorly that they should be beaten.
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