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by arjun810 3575 days ago
I'm one of the founders of Gradescope (the company in the other post).

I see where you're coming from, but I actually think that both of these posts describe ways for students to get more open ended assessment, rather than automatically graded multiple choice questions (i.e. what's typical in MOOCs and Scantrons).
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inputcoffee 3575 days ago
I agree with that, but would you say that the "trend", if there is one, is towards providing that through AI, or more humans?

If I recall, they had computers grade the GMAT essays for at least 10 years, but they had to have a human in the loop because that is the ultimate measure for whether a computer is "correct" in terms of grading an essay.

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arjun810 3575 days ago
The trend is towards neither, I'd say. The biggest trend has been towards online automatically graded multiple choice & short answer questions that aren't really open ended.

The automated essay grading stuff typically looks at writing style more than content, but it's true that it's a problem that tons of people have worked on and there's been some cool progress there as well. We're not really working on bringing AI to essay grading ourselves though.

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