September 4, 1998
How a Computer Program Learns to Grade Essays
| Developers say the technology saves
time and improves the assessment of students
To a professor facing a stack of ungraded essays, this may sound like the story of the shoemaker's elves -- a computer program that can scan an essay and, in a few seconds, reliably identify what material the student has learned and what he has not. The program is real, however -- created by researchers who have spent |
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