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For Student Essayists, an Automated Grader - J. GREG PHELAN, New York Times


When Camden County College in southern New Jersey introduced standardized final exams for English composition four years ago, Anthony Spatola, the chairman of the English department, knew he had a problem: he and other teachers had to grade 1,500 essays in a few days. Hoping to alleviate the burden, he joined a pilot program that was testing an automated essay-scoring system developed by the Educational Testing Service. After achieving about 95 percent agreement between the automated system and a human reader, he was eager to bring the technology into the classroom.... Impressed by the results, he became an early user of another offering from the testing service: the Criterion Online Essay Evaluation Service, a Web-based program for students seeking to practice writing. It combines automated essay scoring with instructional feedback in basic grammar, usage, style and organization.

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