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A few weeks ago, National Public Radio reported that the Massachusetts department of education was considering – as a cost-cutting measure – replacing humans with computers in assessing the quality of teen essays. Every year, high school students take the statewide Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, and as part of it, students typically are asked to write a five-paragraph expository essay, which is traditionally graded by a human. The plan proposed by the department of education was to have these written essays fed into a computer, which would grade them on a scale of 1 to 6.
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