Web-based Software Uses Math to Grade Students’ Writing.
The Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA) is a set of software tools for scoring the quality of the conceptual content of essays based on Latent Semantic Analysis.
Peter Foltz and Thomas Landauer developed a system using a scoring engine called the Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA). IEA was first used to score essays in 1997 for their undergraduate courses. It is now a product from Pearson Educational Technologies and used for scoring within a number of commercial products and state and national exams. IntelliMetric is Vantage Learning's AES engine. Its.
IEA was developed more than a decade ago and has been used to evaluate millions of essays, from scoring student writing at elementary, secondary and university level, to assessing military leadership skills. Intelligent Essay Assessor and PTE Academic IEA automatically evaluates a test taker’s writing skills and knowledge and can be trained to.
The article will describe the most widely used AES systems including Project Essay Grader(TM) (PEG), Intelligent Essay Assessor(TM) (IEA), E-rater(R) and Criterion(SM), IntelliMetric(TM) and MY Access!(R), and Bayesian Essay Test Scoring System(TM) (BETSY). It will also discuss the main characteristics of these systems and current issues regarding the use of them both in low-stakes assessment.
Essays in the Writing Practice content area give your students more writing practice without adding more grading tasks for you. (The Writing Practice content area is not available in all MyLab courses.) Students' Writing Practice submissions are automatically reviewed and scored by Pearson's Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA). IEA uses a unique implementation of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA.
The Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA) (5,6) was developed in the late 90s. It utilised the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) technique (6) which was originally meant for indexing documents and text retrieval in the late 80s. LSA was developed by Thomas K. Landauer of the University of Colorado, Boulder and Peter W. Foltz of the New Mexico State University in the USA. LSA is not suitable to assess.
This digest describes the three most prominent approaches to essay scoring by computer: (1) Project Essay Grade (PEG), introduced by E. Page in 1966; (2) Intelligent Essay Assessor (IEA), introduced for essay grading in 1997 by T. Landauer and P. Foltz; and (3) e-rater, used by the Educational Testing Service and developed by J. Burstein. PEG grades essays primarily on the basis of writing.