Online Grading shooting for an A
A sometimes reluctant writer, Robin Squirrell was nevertheless excited to compose an essay asserting that Friar Lawrence was the “Romeo and Juliet” character most to blame for the deaths of the star-crossed lovers.
Robin’s enthusiasm was heightened because she knew she wouldn’t have to wait long for feedback.
“It takes, like, two seconds,” she said, beaming when she recalled that the automated essay scoring system used at East Haven High School had given her some of the highest marks in the class for the content and organization of her work.New systems allow students to get quick online feedback on their writing.
A few schools in Connecticut and around the nation are starting to use sophisticated Internet-based systems that quickly and thoroughly provide feedback on student writing.
The major players providing this service as the Pennsylvania based Vantage Learning which relies on an artificial scoring engine called IntelliMetric and ETS which is better known for administering SAT tests has an essay assessment program called Criterion.
As long as they’re using this as an assessment tool and not to replace teachers I have no problem. I wish someone would put this on a public site so we could all make use of it.
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I’m not that much experienced since im only 15, but from what i’ve heard from my...
I used criterion my senior year of high school…I got a 6 (out of 6) for a spur-of-the-moment paper about Fight Club (the book) that had no planning whatsoever, but only a 4 (then a 5, after corrections) on a literary analysis of Silent Hill (the movie…we had a weird class)…our teacher took that as one grade, then graded the paper herself (which most of us doubted ever actually happened…)