EdNews.org: Secretary Spellings’ Database, Automated Essay Scoring, and America’s National 16-Hour Pre-Professional Test
By Robert Oliphant
Secretary Margaret Spellings (EdNews 9/27) has recently called for a “cradle to grad school” database. It will probably include the four pre-professional tests that several million Americans now take each year, namely, the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), the Law Schools Admissions Test (LSAT), and the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT). As a group these four tests comprise in effect a 16 hour final exam for American college pre-professional graduates, almost four hours of which require traditional essay writing and traditional high-cost essay-scoring by hand. Practically considered, then, a workable automated system for scoring essays is bound to be a major priority for Secretary Spellings and her database experts.
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