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Shermis, Mark D.; Koch, Chantal Mees; Page, Ellis B.; Keith, Timothy Z.; Harrington, Susanmarie – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 2002
Studied the use of an automated grader to score essays holistically and by rating traits through two experiments that evaluated 807 Web-based essays and then compared 386 essays to evaluations by 6 human raters. Results show the essay grading software to be efficient and able to grade about six documents a second. (SLD)
Descriptors: Automation, College Students, Computer Software, Essays
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Attali, Yigal; Burstein, Jill – Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment, 2006
E-rater[R] has been used by the Educational Testing Service for automated essay scoring since 1999. This paper describes a new version of e-rater (V.2) that is different from other automated essay scoring systems in several important respects. The main innovations of e-rater V.2 are a small, intuitive, and meaningful set of features used for…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Test Scoring Machines, Scoring, Writing Evaluation