What is the status of computerized scoring of student responses to constructed-response questions?
First, let’s make sure we are talking about the same thing. By computerized scoring, we mean an automated system of assigning scores to students’ written responses whereby the computer, not a human being, determines those scores. This is not to be confused with image scoring, where digitized images of student written responses are displayed to human scorers on their computer screens, and the scorers then enter scores for the responses as they evaluate them. While image scoring is widely used in the testing industry, computerized scoring of constructed responses is not as widely used at this time. One significant application is for the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), for which it is used for practice testing and “second reads.” The two most widely known computerized scoring systems are e-Rater by Educational Testing Service and Intellimetric by Vantage Technologies. The primary concern many educators have about computers assigning scores is that they believe the uniqueness a
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