Automated Essay Scoring

A Cross-disciplinary Perspective

By: Mark D. Shermis (Editor), Jill C. Burstein (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 December 2002 | Edition Number 1

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256 Pages

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This new volume is the first to focus entirely on automated essay scoring and evaluation. It is intended to provide a comprehensive overview of the evolution and state-of-the-art of automated essay scoring and evaluation technology across several disciplines, including education, testing and measurement, cognitive science, computer science, and computational linguistics.

The development of this technology has led to many questions and concerns. Automated Essay Scoring attempts to address some of these questions including:
*How can automated scoring and evaluation supplement classroom instruction?
*How does the technology actually work?
*Can it improve students' writing?
*How reliable is the technology?
*How can these computing methods be used to develop evaluation tools?
*What are the state-of the-art essay evaluation technologies and automated scoring systems?

Divided into four parts, the first part reviews the teaching of writing and how computers can contribute to it. Part II analyzes actual automated essay scorers including e-raterTM, Intellimetric, and the Intelligent Essay Assessor. The third part analyzes related psychometric issues, and the final part reviews innovations in the field.

This book is ideal for researchers and advanced students interested in automated essay scoring from the fields of testing and measurement, education, cognitive science, language, and computational linguistics.

Industry Reviews

"If a reader is looking for an understanding of the approaches and potential of AES, this is the book to read....The authors do an excellent job of describing the philosophy and history of their approaches."
-Computational Linguistics

"...this volume covers all of the major questions and answers about computer scoring of essays. It may even convince some skeptics that computer programs can get the job done."
-Abstracts and Updates

"This is a coming-of-age book about automated essay scoring."
-Dr. Carl Bereiter
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/University of Toronto, From the Forew

"This is an emerging field and this state-of-the-art book will contribute significantly to the field and probably be cited often in scholarly literature."
-Dr. Fritz Drasgow
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"...this book makes a very important contribution to the fields of psychometrics, expert systems, and evaluation. There has long been a need to automate the process of scoring essays...it will probably be the standard reference on its subject for years to come."
-Dr. Scott Hershberger
California State University, Long Beach

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