C-rater: Automated scoring of short-answer questions

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 389-405

  Leacock, Claudia ^a   Chodorow, Martin ^b  

^a EDUCATIONAL TESTING SERVICE   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated scoring; Content based scoring; Short answer scoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646866698     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025779619903     Document Type: Article

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