Computer grading of essays at the high school level

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Did you know that many states adopt grading rubrics for statewide writing tests that prohibit graders from incorporating the accuracy of any assertions into the score? Or that the rules may prohibit dinging a student more than once for a certain kind of grammar/spelling error – so a kid who writes an essay with 1 subject-verb disagreement and 1 spelling error gets dinged just like the student with eight subject-verb disagreements and 25 spelling errors.

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<p>No, I didn’t know that. Good grief.</p>