On 06/28/2010 12:48 AM, Jeremy Yanofsky @ Ben Bronz Academy wrote:
Creating a Writing Assessment utility
I'm not quite sure what we're talking about. But do you have the resources to use Bayesian statistics to evaluate writing? It's the same way a spam filter learns what spam is. There seem to be a number of packages available for sale, but I know I've seen at least one open source package -- I just can't find it right now. Perhaps your headmaster has the requisite skills? A windows-based freeware program called "Betsy" used to be available via ERIC, but the site has gone dark.
I'm a public high school English teacher, so definitely feel your pain about your assessment system. Last year I had 138 students in six blocks (classes) -- I couldn't imagine if I tried how I'd survive your system.
A long shot would be to use OOo, then build macros to make comments on the paper -- it would at least cut down on SOME of the writing you do on student's papers. A teacher in my building did something like this with MS Office 2007. She could grade a stack of papers in a half-hour that would take the rest of us several hours. Unfortunately, the macros didn't work in OOo.
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