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    Automatically grading essays with markit?

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    Authors
    Williams, Robert
    Dreher, Heinz
    Date
    2004
    Type
    Journal Article
    
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    Williams, Robert and Dreher, Heinz. 2004. Automatically grading essays with markit?. Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology 1: 0693-0700.
    Source Title
    Issues in Informing Science and Information Technology
    Additional URLs
    http://iisit.org/
    Faculty
    Curtin Business School
    School of Information Systems
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/10987
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    • Curtin Research Publications
    Abstract

    Markit is an Automated Essay Grading (AEG) system capable of running on typical desktop PC platforms. Its performance compares favourably with human graders and with commercially available systems.A distinct advantage of Markit over existing commercial systems is that it requires only one model answer against which the student essays are compared. In this paper we report on a trial of Markit with second year law students? essays.

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