Essay Grading by Computer: A Laboratory Phenomenon?
Henry B. Slotnick, John V. Knapp · The English Journal · 1971
sponsibilities which have taken up so much of our time for so long. Neither view is quite correct. The first view fails by visualizing computer grading of essays as the imposition of a single, unvarying, mechanical standard on papers written by students of varying educational and writing abilities, at varying times, and for varying audiences. Later in this paper, we will demonstrate that the choice of a