Automated Essay Scoring

Automated collection and scoring process for admissions essays and individual class writing.

Description

Leverage award-winning, web-based artificial intelligence to automate your collection and scoring process for both admissions essays and individual class writing, with results in just seconds of submittal. The patented IntelliMetric® engine provides reliable and consistent results across grade levels, subject areas and context. Whether submittals are part of a campus-based curriculum, admissions process or distance learning environment, you can have full confidence in each online writing skill assessment including scoring quality, consistency, reliability, and scalability. Holistic and analytical scores delve within the domains of Focus & Meaning, Organization, Content & Development, Language Use & Style and Mechanics & Conventions, ensuring a complete essay analysis and scoring process.

Advantages of Automated Essay Scoring

  • Significantly reduces cost and time required
  • Web-based tools for 24/7 access
  • At-a-glance metrics reporting and tracking
  • Scores both short answer and extended response questions
  • Scores in more than 20 languages
  • Detects suppositious essays
  • Scores and returns results in seconds
  • Stand-alone or integratable platform
  • Off-the-shelf and customized options available

How Does it Work?

The system is "trained" with a set of previously scored responses, replicating the panel of grading experts in a traditional scoring process . Your submitted sample papers become the basis for the system to "learn" the rubric and infer the pooled judgments of your human scorers.*

*Standardized prompts with automated scoring algorithms are available.

IntelliMetric™ analyzes more than 400 semantic, syntactic and discourse level features to form a composite sense of meaning. Your essays can be scored based on structure, content, or both.

Structure Features

  • Grammar, spelling, capitalization
  • Sentence completeness and punctuation
  • Syntactic variety and sentence complexity
  • Usage, readability, and subject-verb agreement

Content Features

  • Vocabulary, support, elaboration and word choice
  • Unity, single point of view and cohesiveness
  • Introduction and conclusion, coordination and subordination, logical structure, logical transitions and sequence of ideas