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New Test for Computers - Grading Essays at College Level - NYTimes.com
Can computer software evaluate student papers? The debate has waged for about three years in higher education, and lately it has taken on a new urgency. This article from 2012 raises the question. According to a new study [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/44416236/NCME%202012%20Paper3_29_12.pdf] by the University of Akron, computer grading software is just as effective in grading essays on standardized…
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Human Readers for Tests
As readers of my blogs know, I’m never opposed to using technology when it is an effective tool. I am opposed to the blind embrace of the latest trends without critical examination of the potential side effects. Computer-assisted grading, I can endorse to some extent because I use software to help me analyze student papers — and my own writings. But, I cannot and will not endorse any system that…
Expediency and Profit Over Education
Todd Farley
I am not anti-technology, and I know the day will come when computers will read and understand writing, will assess writing, will teach writing. The automated scoring engines that currently exist will probably also prove fundamental to those later developments, too. But until the time comes that automated scoring engines can read and understand, the benefits of those systems seem quite limited to me, not to mention negligible when it comes to high-stakes assessment. It seems to me that claiming otherwise -- claiming automated essay scoring will change assessment as we know it or will lead to miraculously robust Common Core tests -- is to be more concerned with expediency (and, surely, profit) than anything at all to do with the education and enrichment of this country's students and writers.
