The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree
Has given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of the day I had rued (R.F.)
The apparition of these faces i the crowd;
Petals on a wet black bough. (E.P.)
Egyébként ez még csak a kezdet. Majd ha meglesz a szépír0gép is, mehetünk nyugdíjba. Bár egy-két (ezer) nick esetében nem fog feltűnni, hogy számítógép osztályozza írja a szövegeiket, nem ők :)
Bocs, elszúrtam a bemásolást, azért lett olyan hosszú, kérem az eredeti topicnyitót törölni.
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Hát akinek vannak még kétségei az iránt, hogy vesztünk a gépekkel szemben ...
Az első lépések. :)
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High school essays graded by computer
Sol Hurwitz NYT
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
INDIANAPOLIS In the computer lab at Warren Central High School in mid-May, Craig Butler, a junior, squinted at the question on his screen, paused to ponder his answer and began typing.
Craig was one of 48,500 Indiana juniors gathering in high schools across the state to take the end-of-year online English essay test. Unlike most essay tests, however, this one is being graded not by a teacher but by a computer.
Craig has already decided he prefers computer grading. "Teachers, you know, they're human, so they have to stumble around telling you what you need to do," he said at a practice session. "A computer can put it in fine print what you did wrong and how to fix it."
But his English teacher, Richard Dayment, wonders whether the computer is up to the task. "For the computer to do the subjective grading that's necessary on an essay, I'll want to see it before I have faith in it," he said.
Indiana is the first state to use a computer-scored English essay test in a statewide assessment, and its experience could influence testing decisions in other states. Eighteen states now require students to pass a writing test for high school graduation.
"In five years at least 10 more states will be at or beyond the pilot stage" of automated essay scoring, predicts Richard Swartz, executive director of technology products and services at the Educational Testing Service, designers of Indiana's online essay-grading software.
While Indiana's essay test is not a pass-fail "high stakes" test, it is part of an assessment of student achievement in the 40-credit state curriculum, known as Core-40, recommended by Indiana educators and business leaders as preparation for success in college and the work force. Scores on the Core-40 tests will help determine college readiness and course placement for students and the performance ratings of high schools.
With the increasing number of mandates to test student writing, "there's a certain inevitability to computerized essay grading," said Stan Jones, Indiana's commissioner of higher education. Indiana's computerized essay scoring, he said, will reduce by half the cost of administering a pencil-and-paper test and will free teachers from distributing, collecting and, above all, grading thousands of test booklets. Moreover, automated grading will yield almost instant results, allowing teachers to provide immediate feedback to their students. It would take weeks or months to receive grades on a statewide pencil-and-paper test.
To dispel skepticism over computer scoring, student essays were simultaneously graded by a computer and trained readers during a two-year pilot program. Using artificial intelligence to mimic the grading process of human readers, the computer's automated scoring engine, known as e-rater, generated grades on a six-point scale that were virtually identical to those of the readers.
Still, skepticism abounds. Although English teachers at Warren Central applaud the computer's ability to evaluate spelling, punctuation, grammar and organization, Richard Reed, the department chairman, made it clear that "we are not 100 percent sold on the computer's ability to grade content."
Students, too, worry about the computer's accuracy. "We're always told that even the computer makes mistakes," said Mollie Mott, a high school senior. "I just think it helps if a person can actually look at" the essay.
How soon other states will emulate Indiana will depend, in part, on how well the machine's performance compares to that of human graders. So far, pilot tests in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Dakota have failed to persuade those states to abandon human grading.
Hát akinek vannak még kétségei az iránt, hogy vesztünk a gépekkel szemben ...
Az első lépések. :)
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High school essays graded by computer
Sol Hurwitz NYT Wednesday, May 19, 2004
INDIANAPOLIS In the computer lab at Warren Central High School in mid-May, Craig Butler, a junior, squinted at the question on his screen, paused to ponder his answer and began typing.
.
Craig was one of 48,500 Indiana juniors gathering in high schools across the state to take the end-of-year online English essay test. Unlike most essay tests, however, this one is being graded not by a teacher but by a computer.
.
Craig has already decided he prefers computer grading. "Teachers, you know, they're human, so they have to stumble around telling you what you need to do," he said at a practice session. "A computer can put it in fine print what you did wrong and how to fix it."
.
But his English teacher, Richard Dayment, wonders whether the computer is up to the task. "For the computer to do the subjective grading that's necessary on an essay, I'll want to see it before I have faith in it," he said.
.
Indiana is the first state to use a computer-scored English essay test in a statewide assessment, and its experience could influence testing decisions in other states. Eighteen states now require students to pass a writing test for high school graduation.
.
"In five years at least 10 more states will be at or beyond the pilot stage" of automated essay scoring, predicts Richard Swartz, executive director of technology products and services at the Educational Testing Service, designers of Indiana's online essay-grading software.
.
While Indiana's essay test is not a pass-fail "high stakes" test, it is part of an assessment of student achievement in the 40-credit state curriculum, known as Core-40, recommended by Indiana educators and business leaders as preparation for success in college and the work force. Scores on the Core-40 tests will help determine college readiness and course placement for students and the performance ratings of high schools.
.
With the increasing number of mandates to test student writing, "there's a certain inevitability to computerized essay grading," said Stan Jones, Indiana's commissioner of higher education. Indiana's computerized essay scoring, he said, will reduce by half the cost of administering a pencil-and-paper test and will free teachers from distributing, collecting and, above all, grading thousands of test booklets. Moreover, automated grading will yield almost instant results, allowing teachers to provide immediate feedback to their students. It would take weeks or months to receive grades on a statewide pencil-and-paper test.
.
To dispel skepticism over computer scoring, student essays were simultaneously graded by a computer and trained readers during a two-year pilot program. Using artificial intelligence to mimic the grading process of human readers, the computer's automated scoring engine, known as e-rater, generated grades on a six-point scale that were virtually identical to those of the readers.
.
Still, skepticism abounds. Although English teachers at Warren Central applaud the computer's ability to evaluate spelling, punctuation, grammar and organization, Richard Reed, the department chairman, made it clear that "we are not 100 percent sold on the computer's ability to grade content."
.
Students, too, worry about the computer's accuracy. "We're always told that even the computer makes mistakes," said Mollie Mott, a high school senior. "I just think it helps if a person can actually look at" the essay.
.
How soon other states will emulate Indiana will depend, in part, on how well the machine's performance compares to that of human graders. So far, pilot tests in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Dakota have failed to persuade those states to abandon human grading.
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< < Back to Start of Article INDIANAPOLIS In the computer lab at Warren Central High School in mid-May, Craig Butler, a junior, squinted at the question on his screen, paused to ponder his answer and began typing.
.
Craig was one of 48,500 Indiana juniors gathering in high schools across the state to take the end-of-year online English essay test. Unlike most essay tests, however, this one is being graded not by a teacher but by a computer.
.
Craig has already decided he prefers computer grading. "Teachers, you know, they're human, so they have to stumble around telling you what you need to do," he said at a practice session. "A computer can put it in fine print what you did wrong and how to fix it."
.
But his English teacher, Richard Dayment, wonders whether the computer is up to the task. "For the computer to do the subjective grading that's necessary on an essay, I'll want to see it before I have faith in it," he said.
.
Indiana is the first state to use a computer-scored English essay test in a statewide assessment, and its experience could influence testing decisions in other states. Eighteen states now require students to pass a writing test for high school graduation.
.
"In five years at least 10 more states will be at or beyond the pilot stage" of automated essay scoring, predicts Richard Swartz, executive director of technology products and services at the Educational Testing Service, designers of Indiana's online essay-grading software.
.
While Indiana's essay test is not a pass-fail "high stakes" test, it is part of an assessment of student achievement in the 40-credit state curriculum, known as Core-40, recommended by Indiana educators and business leaders as preparation for success in college and the work force. Scores on the Core-40 tests will help determine college readiness and course placement for students and the performance ratings of high schools.
.
With the increasing number of mandates to test student writing, "there's a certain inevitability to computerized essay grading," said Stan Jones, Indiana's commissioner of higher education. Indiana's computerized essay scoring, he said, will reduce by half the cost of administering a pencil-and-paper test and will free teachers from distributing, collecting and, above all, grading thousands of test booklets. Moreover, automated grading will yield almost instant results, allowing teachers to provide immediate feedback to their students. It would take weeks or months to receive grades on a statewide pencil-and-paper test.
.
To dispel skepticism over computer scoring, student essays were simultaneously graded by a computer and trained readers during a two-year pilot program. Using artificial intelligence to mimic the grading process of human readers, the computer's automated scoring engine, known as e-rater, generated grades on a six-point scale that were virtually identical to those of the readers.
.
Still, skepticism abounds. Although English teachers at Warren Central applaud the computer's ability to evaluate spelling, punctuation, grammar and organization, Richard Reed, the department chairman, made it clear that "we are not 100 percent sold on the computer's ability to grade content."
.
Students, too, worry about the computer's accuracy. "We're always told that even the computer makes mistakes," said Mollie Mott, a high school senior. "I just think it helps if a person can actually look at" the essay.
.
How soon other states will emulate Indiana will depend, in part, on how well the machine's performance compares to that of human graders. So far, pilot tests in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Dakota have failed to persuade those states to abandon human grading.
.
The New York Times INDIANAPOLIS In the computer lab at Warren Central High School in mid-May, Craig Butler, a junior, squinted at the question on his screen, paused to ponder his answer and began typing.
.
Craig was one of 48,500 Indiana juniors gathering in high schools across the state to take the end-of-year online English essay test. Unlike most essay tests, however, this one is being graded not by a teacher but by a computer.
.
Craig has already decided he prefers computer grading. "Teachers, you know, they're human, so they have to stumble around telling you what you need to do," he said at a practice session. "A computer can put it in fine print what you did wrong and how to fix it."
.
But his English teacher, Richard Dayment, wonders whether the computer is up to the task. "For the computer to do the subjective grading that's necessary on an essay, I'll want to see it before I have faith in it," he said.
.
Indiana is the first state to use a computer-scored English essay test in a statewide assessment, and its experience could influence testing decisions in other states. Eighteen states now require students to pass a writing test for high school graduation.
.
"In five years at least 10 more states will be at or beyond the pilot stage" of automated essay scoring, predicts Richard Swartz, executive director of technology products and services at the Educational Testing Service, designers of Indiana's online essay-grading software.
.
While Indiana's essay test is not a pass-fail "high stakes" test, it is part of an assessment of student achievement in the 40-credit state curriculum, known as Core-40, recommended by Indiana educators and business leaders as preparation for success in college and the work force. Scores on the Core-40 tests will help determine college readiness and course placement for students and the performance ratings of high schools.
.
With the increasing number of mandates to test student writing, "there's a certain inevitability to computerized essay grading," said Stan Jones, Indiana's commissioner of higher education. Indiana's computerized essay scoring, he said, will reduce by half the cost of administering a pencil-and-paper test and will free teachers from distributing, collecting and, above all, grading thousands of test booklets. Moreover, automated grading will yield almost instant results, allowing teachers to provide immediate feedback to their students. It would take weeks or months to receive grades on a statewide pencil-and-paper test.
.
To dispel skepticism over computer scoring, student essays were simultaneously graded by a computer and trained readers during a two-year pilot program. Using artificial intelligence to mimic the grading process of human readers, the computer's automated scoring engine, known as e-rater, generated grades on a six-point scale that were virtually identical to those of the readers.
.
Still, skepticism abounds. Although English teachers at Warren Central applaud the computer's ability to evaluate spelling, punctuation, grammar and organization, Richard Reed, the department chairman, made it clear that "we are not 100 percent sold on the computer's ability to grade content."
.
Students, too, worry about the computer's accuracy. "We're always told that even the computer makes mistakes," said Mollie Mott, a high school senior. "I just think it helps if a person can actually look at" the essay.
.
How soon other states will emulate Indiana will depend, in part, on how well the machine's performance compares to that of human graders. So far, pilot tests in Oregon, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and South Dakota have failed to persuade those states to abandon human grading.
.
The New York Times INDIANAPOLIS In the computer lab at Warren Central High School in mid-May, Craig Butler, a junior, squinted at the question on his screen, paused to ponder his answer and began typing.
.
Craig was one of 48,500 Indiana juniors gathering in high schools across the state to take the end-of-year online English essay test. Unlike most essay tests, however, this one is being graded not by a teacher but by a computer.
.
Craig has already decided he prefers computer grading. "Teachers, you know, they're human, so they have to stumble around telling you what you need to do," he said at a practice session. "A computer can put it in fine print what you did wrong and how to fix it."
.
But his English teacher, Richard Dayment, wonders whether the computer is up to the task. "For the computer to do the subjective grading that's necessary on an essay, I'll want to see it before I have faith in it," he said.
.
Indiana is the first state to use a computer-scored English essay test in a statewide assessment, and its experience could influence testing decisions in other states. Eighteen states now require students to pass a writing test for high school graduation.
.
"In five years at least 10 more states will be at or beyond the pilot stage" of automated essay scoring, predicts Richard Swartz, executive director of technology products and services at the Educational Testing Service, designers of Indiana's online essay-grading software.
.
While Indiana's essay test is not a pass-fail "high stakes" test, it is part of an assessment of student achievement in the 40-credit state curriculum, known as Core-40, recommended by Indiana educators and business leaders as preparation for success in college and the work force. Scores on the Core-40 tests will help determine.
