>> But Nitin Madnani, senior research scientist at Educational Testing Service (ETS), the company that makes the GRE's automated scoring program, says [...] "If someone is smart enough to pay attention to all the things that an automated system pays attention to, and to incorporate them in their writing, that's no longer gaming, that's good writing," he says. "So you kind of do want to give them a good grade."
The presence of this quote in the article makes my day; doubly so given its source. It's a picturesque example of a statement that could conceivably get a 10/10 from a robo-grader based on the language and structure, but the thinking it represents is completely backwards.
The presence of this quote in the article makes my day; doubly so given its source. It's a picturesque example of a statement that could conceivably get a 10/10 from a robo-grader based on the language and structure, but the thinking it represents is completely backwards.