In this episode of ACTNext Navigator podcast, we'll go under the hood of ACT's automated essay scoring engine, CRASE+.

Our guests are Erin Yao and Scott Wood. They've been working for many years on CRASE+, a product acquired in 2014 when ACT purchased Pacific Metrics. CRASE+ is a writing assessment tool that begins with human graders to develop a rubric. Data from human graders is used to train the automatic grading on a large scale.

We discuss CRASE+, automated scoring, the challenges of automated scoring using natural language processing, and how to address the biases in human graders.

Scott has a book chapter coming out in February 2020, "Public perception and communication around automated essay scoring," in the Handbook of Automated Scoring: Theory into Practice.

Read a transcript of the show at:  https://actnext.org/research-and-projects/navigator-podcast-ep-6-crase-plus/ 

The views and opinions expressed in this podcast are those of the authors only and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of ACT, Inc.