Re: [school-discuss] English teacher apps

[robin <robin@Bilkent.EDU.TR>]

Dennis Daniels wrote:
> Hello Quentin
> I use style and diction daily. I've been looking at how to set regex 
> into the search params of diction to make sure students don't end a 
> sentence with prepositions, for example.
>
> Style needs a better reporting scheme too... some kind of app/ script 
> that can take all of a students papers and process their style reports 
> into a database for better growth tracking.
>
> OS education tools need to make jobs easier for teachers in order to get 
> more pull in the district office board room discussions. I don't know if 
> you saw that the State of Indiana is now using an electronic essay 
> grading system... OS could / should cobble something that does half of 
> that App and make it available to teachers... /dream
I don't like the idea of electronic grading. Sure, the website claims 
that the software always comes within a few points of human markers, but 
I suspect that is more a reflection on the humans than the software. If 
such a system comes into widespread use, students will quickly learn to 
write to the software and produce high-scoring drivel.

Robin

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Robin Turner
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