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Direct linkShermis, Mark D. – Journal of Educational Measurement, 2022
One of the challenges of discussing validity arguments for machine scoring of essays centers on the absence of a commonly held definition and theory of good writing. At best, the algorithms attempt to measure select attributes of writing and calibrate them against human ratings with the goal of accurate prediction of scores for new essays.…
Descriptors: Scoring, Essays, Validity, Writing Evaluation
