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Re: [school-discuss] English teacher apps



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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