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This year, STAAR exams will be graded automatically after the Texas Education Agency rolled out an "automated scoring engine" for standardized tests.
Texas will use computers to grade written answers on this year’s STAAR tests
Students sitting for their STAAR exams this week will be part of a new method of evaluating Texas schools: Their written answers on the state’s standardized tests will be graded automatically by computers. The Texas Education Agency is rolling out an “automated scoring engine” for open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessment of Academic […]
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Students in Texas sitting their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system.
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The state will save more than $15 million by using technology similar to ChatGPT to give initial scores, reducing the number of human graders needed. The decision caught some educators by surprise.