Word: foltz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What we've done is to create a system that would grade in the same way I would grade," said Peter W. Foltz, an assistant professor of psychology at New Mexico State University and one of the project's leaders...
...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...
...really looking for reasoning ability but at the choice of words and how those words are expressed," Foltz 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...
...comes from being mired in a forced and artificial "civility" when what we really want is to gather those few people we truly care about and then find a mountaintop where we can live like the primitives--fewer in number, less diverse, more honest and less civil. DIANE E. FOLTZ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania...