Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Writing Expert: Computer Scoring by PARCC-Pearson Tests Is Fundamentally Flawed

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Why is Silicon Valley in such a hurry to automate education?

 

Writing Expert: Computer Scoring by PARCC-Pearson Tests Is Fundamentally Flawed

dianeravitch.net - Les Perelman, who was in charge of MIT'sWriting Across the Curriculum program, wrote this opinion piece for the Boston Globe.

Perelman said that student essays written for the PARCC test, created by Pearson, would be scored by computers. Unfortunately, the computer scorers are unable to detect the meaning of language. Instead, they rely on length, grammar, and other measurable elements.

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