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The other reason the writing test will be less reliable is that human beings, not machines, will grade the essay. In June, I participated in a mock grading session with members of the College Board's writing-development committee. We read 15 essays by kids who had taken a pretest...
Our grading also rewarded the blandest essays. I gave a 5 to a kid who had written a funny, subtle first-person account of a friend who had slacked off his studies and begun dressing "like a pimp" in order to impress the cool kids. The other graders gave the...
He said students had asked for more information; specifically, for the names of Teaching Fellows who received negative evaluations and for some kind of grading statistics to be printed.
Grading style: Tough.
Grading style: I have never graded anybody here.