Word: essay
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...program, a professor must grade several papers ranging from excellent to poor and input them into the computer. The essay grader assigns high scores to those essays that use word combinations similar to the sample high-scoring papers...
...computer program promises to help change all that. Developers of the Intelligent Essay Assessor claim it can grade essays as well as a human professor--but far more quickly and reliably...
...researchers plan to offer the essay grader to public schools, colleges and national examiners like the Educational Testing Service...
Foltz allowed students in his psycholinguistics class to have their essay drafts graded by the computer, and then offered to re-grade the final essays if students were dissatisfied with the assessment. None of them took him up on his offer, he said...
...essay grader can't not judge style or originality--the program works best with focused, fact-or content-based essay topics in disciplines like history, science and economics, Foltz said. In fact, highly original essays are rejected by the computer as irregular and must be graded by hand...