{"id":183,"date":"2006-05-12T12:43:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T16:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/05\/12\/computer-grading-of-student-essays\/"},"modified":"2006-05-12T12:43:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T16:43:04","slug":"computer-grading-of-student-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/05\/12\/computer-grading-of-student-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer grading of student essays &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"typa-typa-typa.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/145\/files\/2006\/05\/typa-typa-typa.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"208\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" \/>Envision this: A computer tells students that their latest literary concoction doesn&#8217;t connect ideas logically. At Warren Central High School, in Indianapolis, English teacher Kathy Paris doesn&#8217;t have to imagine. She uses Criterion, a Web service that scores essays and shoots feedback out to students within seconds.<br \/>\nArticle source and image source: &#8220;Grade-o-Matic : The red pen goes high tech&#8221;, Cheri Lucas, Edutopia&#8217;s Technology Intrgration, May 11, 2006. Edutopia, The George Lucas Educational Foundation. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/magazine\/ed1article.php?id=Art_1411&amp;issue=dec_05\">http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/magazine\/ed1article.php?id=Art_1411&amp;issue=dec_05<\/a><br \/>\nArticle additional resources:<br \/>\nCriterion: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ets.org\/criterion\">http:\/\/www.ets.org\/criterion<\/a><br \/>\nGrades That Mean Something: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/1040\">http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/1040<\/a><br \/>\nSAGrader: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/1040\">http:\/\/sagrader.com<\/a><br \/>\nOther resources:<br \/>\nComputer Software Grades Essays Just as Well as People, Profs Announce., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998. (Science Blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scienceblog.com\/community\/older\/1998\/C\/199802841.html\">http:\/\/www.scienceblog.com\/community\/older\/1998\/C\/199802841.html<\/a>)<br \/>\nQuote: <i>&#8220;In one test, both the Intelligent Essay Assessor and faculty members graded essays from 500 psychology students at CU-Boulder. &#8220;The correlation between the two scores was very high &#8212; it was the same correlation as if two humans were reading them,&#8221; Landauer said.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Envision this: A computer tells students that their latest literary concoction doesn&#8217;t connect ideas logically. At Warren Central High School, in Indianapolis, English teacher Kathy Paris doesn&#8217;t have to imagine. She uses Criterion, a Web service that scores essays and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/2006\/05\/12\/computer-grading-of-student-essays\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}