What is automated essay scoring? - Assessment Systems

Automated essay scoring is an important application of machine learning and artificial intelligence to the field of psychometrics and assessment. In fact, it's been around far longer than "machine learning" and "artificial intelligence" have been buzzwords in the general public! The field of psychometrics has been doing such groundbreaking work for decades. So how does it work, and how can you apply it? The first and most critical thing to know is that there is not an algorithm that "reads" the student essays.