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Computer Program Makes Essay Grading Easier
phresno writes "c|Net is running a short article on Prof. Bent at the Columbia, Mo., University. The Prof. has developed a computer program which he now uses to grade his sociology students' essays. He claims the program can discern content, and argument flow within sentence and paragraph structure, and has saved him over two hundred hours of reading per semester. How long before he's replaced entirely by his own program to cut down on staff costs?"
So since the professor's time is worth about $36.00/hour and he spends 200 less hours on reading papers...
200 hours * $32.00 = $7200
He teaches about 84 students...
$7200 / 84 = $85.71 refund for each student. It's party time!
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
Okay Slashdot Editors, time to fork out the $$$ to get some auto-moderating going on in these threads! Wait, can this grading program test for humor? No? Fuck it then.
Authority questions you. Return the favor.
"But Professor, my original essay was really good! I just had to add a bunch of crap to get past the lameness filter ..."
Cheers,
IT
Power corrupts. PowerPoint corrupts absolutely.
I can say this much, I have never had any other professor, outside of the Chem or Physics department, grade my papers like a math professor. Most of the humanities professors just skim over. But in my Calculus class, it was possible to turn in homework and get negative points. For example, you have a problem 1.0 + 1.00 = ?. You write 2. First, half a point off for not figuring in significant digits. Another half a point off for sloppy handwriting. And the full point off for not showing your work. Problem worth one point, your score is negative one point. In some cases, it was better to not turn in anything at all.
Rosco: "If brains were gunpowder, Enos couldn't blow his nose."
79% gave up on 1st day in iCLOD city. Can you survive there? [iclod.com]
I spent 3 minutes reading about it and I gave up.
My other first post is car post.
First, moving around quickly, and with purpose, is a true sign of character. Secondarily, bustle(e.g. hustle) yields more product for the working types. "Hustle and bustle are like my right and left arms," said Li'l Spicy in his famous "Hustle and Bustle Are Like My Right and Left Arms" speech. Webster's defines bustle as "excited and often noisy activity; a stir." A stir, indeed. Finally, sometimes gross stuff can be funny.
Here are some links:
- Turn It In
- Penny Arcade
It is now my intention to play video games for several hours.Sources:
The Brothers Chaps (2004).Homestar Runner. Retrieved April 8, 2005 from www.homestarrunner.com
Random Source (2005). that you won't read because you were too lazy. Retrieved April 8, 2005 from www.toreadthisfar.com
(I have four words for this post: "Too much half-asleep effort")
"When the atomic bomb goes off there's devastation...but when the atomic bong goes off there's celebraaaaation!"
So lets see : An independent investigation by a Columbia university panel says one thing. A load of bloggers say something else.
Yes, my analytical mind tells me the bloggers have more credibility. I think I'll believe them.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
WTF is a word processor? I write documents in LaTeX ;-)
What, his program can't read a DVI?
Tom
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
Most universities already have this service -- it's called Business School.
Bemopolis
"I guess the moral of the story is, don't paint your airship with rocket fuel." -- Addison Bain
Student: "But ... but ... but I salivated when I heard the bell ring! That's what I'm supposed to do!!"
Professor: {shakes his head sadly}
[You have a stable society when some nut guns down a schoolyard and the law doesn't change.]