http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/...english-essays
English?! You could pull off something like this in maths or possibly science. With this someone could feasibly write a page full of rubbish but put in some key words or sentences that the computer looks for and score well.
tabloid recruitment just became a lot easierOriginally Posted by shadowmaster
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Wish they did that to my bloody Business course, maybe the robot would do better?. My A level teacher has been doing this specific course for about 5 years and no problems till now, majority got over a C in both pieces of coursework and yet when submitted everyone got marked down badly!. I went from 88% and 85% to 52% and 58%!(most people went 3 grades also). The school paid £500 for an appeal to check it, everyone went up a few % on the first coursework and down on the second which just shows the greedy tards want to keep the money and fail everyone!.
Why doesnt a third party company do the apeal? Not just the stupid "chief manager".
Sorry this went a bit off topic!.
Well been the grauniad, which as many of you know my sterotype is a paper read by teachers, which informs them how sad the puppies are.....
They haven't actually mentioned any of the useful information about how the system works, and what would actually be feisable to do with it (ie is A-Level beyound it?)
But, when you look at the grammer checker in word for instance, that has little problem understanding a vertiable platheora of different constructs, whilst been one would hope comparatively primative to an automated marking system.
The other thing is, all this will do for starters is reduce the number of markers needed, if it has any queiries I imagine it would flag them for an operator to decide.
There is a great beauty in this approche, one day everyone will be marked by the same machine with EXACTLY the same standards.
In the real subjects, this isn't such a problem because they use a more perfect form of communication such as maths. But I do like the idea that you could have one expert following the logic, say you have someone whos a further maths student, and they resit pure1 to get a better mark, they might well use approches which are valid, but beyound the marking scheme. A well designed system would have no problem dealing with this.
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Is it poddible then that the teachers course material is out of date ??
That just makes no sense.
Of course you can mark an "English as a Foreign Language" exam with a computer, to spot errors and show them on screen. English as a subject however is a completely kettle of fish. It's got far more to do with the points that you make, and how relevant they are to the subject matter, than any nonsense about whether you used a comma correctly.
Maybe in 20 years, but not any time soon.
Hmm. I can see how it could work for English Language papers. Correct English isn't set in stone but there are still rules.
I got a C for English Language at GCSE, BTW. That didn't even put me in the top 50% of the country. To this day that still rankles with me. I'm sure I fully deserved my C for English Literature- I'm not good at interpreting the creative writing of others. But I am good at writing coherent and grammatically correct prose- better than most people, IMO. A C is taking the piss.
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