Grant Closed

Toward Theoretically Meaningful Automated Essay Scoring

NCES

Program: NAEP Secondary Analysis Grant

Award amount: $99,915

Principal investigator: Randy Bennett

Awardee:

Educational Testing Service (ETS)

Year: 2004

Award period: 1 year (09/01/2004 - 08/31/2005)

Project type:

Other

Award number: R902B040006

Purpose

This project will evaluate a theoretically driven method for scoring NAEP writing assessments automatically. Automated scoring has the potential to reduce processing costs, speed reporting of results and improve the consistency of grading for writing assessment.