Machine scoring of student essays: truth and consequences

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Includes bibliographical references and index.Edited by Patricia Freitag Ericsson, Richard H. Haswell.Introduction / Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard H. Haswell -- Interested complicities: the dialectic of computer-assisted writing assessment / Ken S. McAllister and Edward M. White -- The meaning of meaning: is a paragraph more than an equation? / Patricia Freitag Ericsson -- Can't touch this: reflections on the servitude of computers as readers / Chris M. Anson -- Automatons and automated scoring: drudges and black boxes, and dei ex machina / Richard H. Haswell -- Taking a spin on the intelligent essay assessor / Tim McGee -- ACCUPLACER's essay-scoring technology: when reliability does not equal validity / Edmund Jones -- WritePlacer Plus in place: an exploratory case study / Anne Herrington and Charles Moran -- E-Write as a means for placement into three composition courses: a pilot study / Richard N. Matzen Jr. and Colleen Sorensen -- Computerized writing assessment: community college faculty find reasons to say "Not yet" / William W. Ziegler -- Piloting the COMPASS E-Write software at Jackson State Community College / Teri T. Maddox -- The role of the writing coordinator in a culture of placement by ACCUPLACER / Gail S. Corso -- Always already: automated essay scoring and grammar-checkers in college writing courses / Carl Whithaus -- Automated essay grading in the sociology classroom: finding common ground / Edward Brent and Martha Townsend -- Automated writing instruction: computer-assisted or computer-driven pedagogies? / Beth Ann Rothermel -- Why less is not more: what we lose by letting a computer score writing samples / William Condon -- More work for teachers? possible futures of teaching writing in the age of computerized writing assessment / Bob Broad -- A bibliography of machine scoring of student writing, 1962-2005 / Richard H. Haswell