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Hutchison, Dougal – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2007
This paper reports a comparison of human and computer marking of approximately 600 essays produced by 11-year-olds in the UK. Each essay script was scored by three human markers. Scripts were also scored by the "e-rater" program. There was a good agreement between human and machine marking. Scripts with highly discrepant scores were…
Descriptors: Essays, Computer Uses in Education, Scoring, Comparative Analysis