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General News 7/15/2018 at 12:35 PM EDT

Robo-Grading Student Essays is Garbage; by Diane Ravitch

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"NPR the insanity or stupidity of asking a machine to judge a student essay. First, it shows disrespect for the student. Second, it diminishes the importance and value of language. Third, the machine can be easily fooled, as Les Perelmann of MIT has demonstrated conclusively with his studies of how easy it is to fool the machine. Basically, the machine can’t evaluate facts. Perelman showed that a student could write an essay declaring that the War of 1812 took place in 1945, and the machine would not recognize it as an error." Ending real teaching and dumbing down our citizens is a goal.

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