{"id":60103,"date":"2024-04-10T11:47:04","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=1377a27352cbeaeead30896bde8290b7"},"modified":"2024-04-10T11:47:04","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T15:47:04","slug":"texas-is-replacing-thousands-of-human-exam-graders-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60103","title":{"rendered":"Texas is replacing thousands of human exam graders with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/10\/24126206\/texas-staar-exam-graders-ai-automated-scoring-engine\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: Holy shit that's a terrible idea.<\/div><figure>\n      <img alt=\"Illustration of a robot brain.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/Lx4peUEO3wDmtyC04CwIGbfMk8s=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/73269306\/STK_414_AI_A.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n        <figcaption><em>The TEA expects to save between $15 and $20 million per year by using its new &ldquo;automated scoring engine.&rdquo;<\/em> | Image: The Verge<\/figcaption>\n    <\/figure>\n\n  <p>Students in Texas taking their state-mandated exams this week are being used as guinea pigs for a new artificial intelligence-powered scoring system set to replace a majority of human graders in the region.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/04\/09\/staar-artificial-intelligence-computer-grading-texas\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Texas Tribune<\/em> reports<\/a> an &ldquo;automated scoring engine&rdquo; that utilizes natural language processing &mdash; the technology that enables chatbots like OpenAI&rsquo;s ChatGPT to understand and communicate with users &mdash; is being rolled out by the Texas Education Agency (TEA) to grade open-ended questions on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exams. The agency is expecting the system to save $15&ndash;20 million per year by reducing the need for temporary human scorers, with plans to hire under 2,000 graders this year compared to the...<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/4\/10\/24126206\/texas-staar-exam-graders-ai-automated-scoring-engine\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TEA expects to save between $15 and $20 million per year by using its ne&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=60103\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}