Automated essay scoring using Bayes' theorem

Journal of Technology, Learning, and Assessment

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1-22

  Rudner, Lawrence M ^a,b   Liang, Tahung ^b  

^a ERIC Clearinghouse Assess and Eval ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

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