Introduzione alla cultura visuale / Nicholas Mirzoeff ; a cura di Anna Camaiti Hostert ; traduzione di Federica Fontana

• Record Nr.: UNINA990003915070403321
• Autore: Mirzoeff, Nicholas
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Roma : Meltemi, ©2002
• ISBN: 88-8353-157-4
• Descrizione fisica: 400 p. : fig. ; 20 cm
• Collana: Nautilus ; 8
• Disciplina: 306
• Locazione: BFS
• Collocazione: 306 MIR 1; 306 MIR 1BIS
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Contiene bibl. (pp. 373-386) e indici dei nomi e delle ill.

Machine scoring of student essays : truth and consequences / / edited by Patricia Freitag Ericsson and Richard H. Haswell

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910213825803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Logan, : Utah State University Press, c2006
• ISBN: 9786613283498; 9781283283496; 1283283492; 9780874215366; 0874215366
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): EricssonPatricia Freitag <1950->; HaswellRichard H
• Disciplina: 808/.042076
• Soggetti: English language - Rhetoric - Study and teaching - Evaluation; Report writing - Study and teaching (Higher) - Evaluation; Grading and marking (Students) - Data processing; Educational tests and measurements - Data processing
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: The current trend toward machine-scoring of student work, Ericsson and Haswell argue, has created an emerging issue with implications for higher education across the disciplines, but with particular importance for those in English departments and in administration. The academic community has been silent on the issue-some would say excluded from it-while the commercial entities who develop essay-scoring software have been very active. Machine Scoring of Student Essays is the first volume to seriously consider the educational mechanisms and consequences of this trend, and it off