Envision this: A computer tells students that their latest literary concoction doesn't connect ideas logically. At Warren Central High School, in Indianapolis, English teacher Kathy Paris doesn't have to imagine. She uses Criterion, a Web service that scores essays and shoots feedback out to students within seconds.

Article source and image source: "Grade-o-Matic : The red pen goes high tech", Cheri Lucas, Edutopia's Technology Intrgration, May 11, 2006. Edutopia, The George Lucas Educational Foundation. http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1411&issue=dec_05

Article additional resources:

Criterion: http://www.ets.org/criterion
Grades That Mean Something: http://www.edutopia.org/1040
SAGrader: http://sagrader.com

Other resources:

Computer Software Grades Essays Just as Well as People, Profs Announce., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1998. (Science Blog, http://www.scienceblog.com/community/older/1998/C/199802841.html)
Quote: "In one test, both the Intelligent Essay Assessor and faculty members graded essays from 500 psychology students at CU-Boulder. "The correlation between the two scores was very high -- it was the same correlation as if two humans were reading them," Landauer said."