Your teachers are well-educated on how to assess what an excellent paper looks like for a 5th grade student versus a 6th grade student. If your school is investing in making your students better writers, their writing levels should progress significantly with each year they move toward graduation.

One of the common fears of implementing a paper grader is that it won’t be able to score writing as accurately as a teacher. However, this is simply not the case. Essay scoring software is as accurate, and sometimes more so, than human scoring.

Josh is 16 years old.  Currently a junior at William. H. Smith High School, he has earned varsity status on the Baseball and Wrestling team for the past two years. Anticipating a bright future, he hopes to apply to a variety of Division 1 schools and earn generous scholarship offers.  There’s just one problem:  his writing skills are subpar.  While he’s been able to maintain decent grades in math, science and other subjects throughout high school, he’s always struggled with essays.   Until now, he’s always managed to get by, but now that the all-important SAT is on the horizon, he needs help…fast.

Most students have anxiety about standardized tests.  The results of these examinations can have a huge impact on the success of their college applications (not to mention the pursuit of scholarships or financial aid).  Grades, extracurricular activities, and public service fade to the background when it’s time to sit down and take the SAT or other tests, so preparation is crucial.

For many students, essay writing is daunting. While subjects like math have objectively correct answers, writing is more subjective – and thus grading is not always accurate.

That’s where test scoring machines come in.

Scoring essays, by nature, is a challenging part of a teacher’s job.  The process takes a great deal of time, and reading too quickly through them all inevitably results in a lack of proper attention to detail.

For generations, the education world has been resigned to the fact that this responsibility is an unavoidable part of the job, leaving teachers to manage this daunting workload on a regular basis.

Luckily, the past few decades of software development have led us to technology that not only meets the standards of expert scorers… it exceeds them.

Read on to learn more about essay grading software.

Students across the country are learning how to become better writers with one simple strategy employed by school districts: Get the students to write more.

The only way to become a better writer is to actually write. And the more students write, the more they get a feel for:

• Argument
• Composition
• Context
• Grammar
• Syntax
• And other elements of great writing

There is one problem with the strategy of getting students to write more. It puts undue strain on teachers who are already overtaxed for time.

Teachers work tirelessly to ensure the success of their students. School districts know it, and they need a way to keep teachers satisfied in their careers by relieving them of the undue strain of grading essays.

When a teacher returns graded essays back a week or two late, parents and students become frustrated. What's often overlooked is that grading essays is time-consuming, and usually teachers collect papers from more than one class.

Teachers are forced to choose: Rush to finish grading papers on time, and return them with inconsistencies, or return accurately graded papers weeks later.

Learn how automated scoring solves this old problem.

Abstract: Learn how IntelliMetric® analyzes and scores written open-ended essay assessments in seconds. 

IntelliMetric®: How it Works

IntelliMetric® is based on 30 years of research and development and has been used to score open-ended essay assessments since 1998. IntelliMetric® is the first commercially successful tool able to administer open-ended questions and provide immediate feedback to students.

In order to score essays, IntelliMetric® "learns" from a set of responses previously determined by experts. In this way, IntelliMetric® understands the combined judgments of human scorers.