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<p>True…so far. With budgets slashed, how long before the computer has the final say?</p>
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<p>That’s what I don’t get about any form of computer grading. Does the computer know if it is right? If the student writes “Boo Radley has served as a moral hero for many readers and as a model of integrity for lawyers”, would the computer only grade the vocab, sentence structure, etc. and not catch that the student has mixed up the characters?</p>
<p>Don’t you all know extremely bright students who would make a game of it? Write a paper in total ignorance of the book and see if you can get a 5, based on sentence structure, etc If the teacher didn’t read the essays, it could work.</p>
<p>Of course, students have been doing that to human graders forever. H tells about one teacher he had. The guy actually graded the first essay. Then every other grade was the grade the student got on the first one. They would actually insert stuff in the middle of the essay like, “Mr. __, I know you won’t read this and that I will get a 92 on this paper” and they were right.</p>
<p>So, maybe the computer is an improvement over some writing teachers.</p>