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How is the computer trained to score student essays?

April 26, 2017Computer essays score student trained

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How is the computer trained to score student essays?

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In order to train SkillWriterSM to effectively, automatically score student essays, essay prompts are administered in real classrooms by real teachers like you. Then, expert human scorers use the rubrics generated by Glencoe to evaluate and provide both analytical and holistic numerical and narrative feedback for each essay. These essays along with the associated scores and feedback are then used to “train” a set of neural networks to react to student essays like an expert human scorer.