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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Computers help grade essays - Jay Mathews, NBC
Nadeem Sarwar remembered all the lessons on good writing drummed into him by his ninth-grade teacher at the Newport School in Montgomery County. So last summer when he took the GMAT, the standard entrance exam for business graduate schools, he was careful to be clear and organized, just as Janice Marcus had taught him. But Sarwar, 29, said he was disturbed to discover that one of the graders of his essays on that test would not have been the least bit impressed by Marcus's teaching. The grader wasn't even human. Sarwar's score of five out of six possible points on the analytical writing section was awarded, in part, by a computer program named e-rater. His performance on the GMAT was strong enough to help him gain admission to the George Washington University School of Business.
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