Machine scoring of student essays : truth and consequences /: truth and consequences. (©2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard H. Haswell.
• Other Names: Ericsson, Patricia Freitag, 1950-; Haswell, Richard H
• Contents: Introduction / Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard H. Haswell -- Interested complicities : the dialectic of computer-assisted writing assessment / Ken S. McAllister and Edward M. White -- The meaning of meaning : is a paragraph more than an equation? / Patricia Freitag Ericsson -- Can't touch this : reflections on the servitude of computers as readers / Chris M. Anson -- Automatons and automated scoring : drudges and black boxes, and dei ex machina / Richard H. Haswell -- Taking a spin on the intelligent essay assessor / Tim McGee -- ACCUPLACER's essay-scoring technology : when reliability does not equal validity / Edmund Jones -- WritePlacer Plus in place : an exploratory case study / Anne Herrington and Charles Moran -- E-Write as a means for placement into three composition courses : a pilot study / Richard N. Matzen Jr. and Colleen Sorensen -- Computerized writing assessment : community college faculty find reasons to say "Not yet" / William W. Ziegler -- Piloting the COMPASS E-Write software at Jackson State Community College / Teri T. Maddox -- The role of the writing coordinator in a culture of placement by ACCUPLACER / Gail S. Corso -- Always already : automated essay scoring and grammar-checkers in college writing courses / Carl Whithaus -- Automated essay grading in the sociology classroom : finding common ground / Edward Brent and Martha Townsend -- Automated writing instruction : computer-assisted or computer-driven pedagogies? / Beth Ann Rothermel -- Why less is not more : what we lose by letting a computer score writing samples / William Condon -- More work for teachers? possible futures of teaching writing in the age of computerized writing assessment / Bob Broad -- A bibliography of machine scoring of student writing, 1962-2005 / Richard H. Haswell.
• Publisher Details: Logan : Utah State University Press
• Publication Date: 2006
• Copyright Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource (268 pages)
• Subjects: 808/.042076; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Evaluation; Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Evaluation; Grading and marking (Students) -- Data processing; Educational tests and measurements -- Data processing; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Rhetoric; REFERENCE -- Writing Skills; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Composition & Creative Writing; EDUCATION -- Higher; Educational tests and measurements -- Data processing; English language -- Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Evaluation; Grading and marking (Students) -- Data processing; Report writing -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Evaluation; Electronic book; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0874215366; 9780874215366; 9786613283498; 6613283495
• Related ISBNs: 087421632X; 9780874216325; 1283283492; 9781283283496
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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