{"id":10443,"date":"2013-12-11T14:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T19:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10443"},"modified":"2017-02-25T23:58:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-26T04:58:14","slug":"easy-as","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=10443","title":{"rendered":"Easy A&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grade inflation has been a topic of serious conversation in educational circles since I was in college forty plus years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/dish.andrewsullivan.com\/2013\/12\/10\/harvards-easy-as\/\">interesting take<\/a> on it from the Dish.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly interested in computer scoring of essays. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When Beggrow and her team analyzed the data, they found that professors&#8217; and computers&#8217; scores of students&#8217; short essays were almost identical, the correlation was 0.96 to 1.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I taught years ago I preferred to ask essay questions to multiple choice questions. Now it seems computers can evaluate them almost as well as human teachers.<\/p>\n<p>And don&#8217;t forget that computers can also fairly easily disclose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=plagiarism+checker&#038;oq=plagerism&#038;aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l5.6789j0j4&#038;sourceid=chrome&#038;espv=210&#038;es_sm=122&#038;ie=UTF-8\">when students have copied<\/a> their essays wholesale from other sources. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grade inflation has been a topic of serious conversation in educational circles since I was in college forty plus years ago. Here&#8217;s an interesting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10443"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19935,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10443\/revisions\/19935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}