Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’
Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’
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Massachusetts MCAS tests: sorry kid, AI says ‘fail’
This year, about 1,400 essays got bizarrely wrong scores and had to be reassessed. You guessed it — a contractor scored them with AI!
The contractor, Cognia, got $36.5 million this year to mark essays, and they did that by just throwing them into the chatbot...
How did the contractor get caught out on this year’s disaster? One third-grade teacher went and checked her students’ essays and saw the bizarre scores. She alerted her principal, who sent it up to the district. In the end, 1,400 essays got remarked.
Third graders writing essays? What? Most third graders I’ve met can barely write a sentence.
Really? Writing essays that had introductions, bodies, and conclusions were what we had to do in 3rd grade. That's also the year I believe we had to start writing them in cursive. Then we started submitting them typed in 4th or 5th.
I doubt they really had to be 5 paragraphs but the books we were supposed to be reading were over 100 pages and don't have pictures at that point.
Being able to write a short story shouldn't be all that hard, granted you will spell shit wrong and have poor sentence structure, but that's how you learn.
The essays won't be good but yeah 3rd graders should be able to write a paragraph or two on an age appropriate topic
Eh? Third graders have a decently large vocabulary and can express complex thoughts and ideas. I doubt we're talking 800+-word essays, but 200 words? Maybe two paragraphs? They can totally put short essays together.
Source: I have an 8-year-old who is admittedly pretty verbose, but her classmates can do this stuff too
If your 8-year-old can write coherent, well-structured paragraphs then I’d say she’s precocious. I’ve worked with high school students who can’t do that.