Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences

Authors

Patricia Freitag Ericsson
Richard H. Haswell

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Abstract

The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue—some would say excluded from it—while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. Machine Scoring of Student Essays is the first volume to seriously consider the educational mechanisms and consequences of this trend, and it offers important discussions from some of the leading scholars in writing assessment.

Document Type

Book

Publisher

Utah State University Press

Publication Date

2006

ISBN

9780874215366

City

Logan

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Available as ebook or hard copy from USU Press.

Recommended Citation

Ericsson, Patricia Freitag and Haswell, Richard H., "Machine Scoring of Student Essays: Truth and Consequences" (2006). All USU Press Publications. 139.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/usupress_pubs/139