Students Improve Learning by 20 Percentage Points with Essay Grading Program, SAGrader
"An analysis of 1,595 student essays submitted in a college-level introductory course found that essays revised based on feedback from the SAGrader program achieved final grades 20 percentage points higher than the grades assigned to first drafts of those essays."
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SAGrader Helps Disadvantaged Students Overcome Initial Deficits
"An analysis of essays submitted in introductory sociology assignments finds that SAGrader levels the playing field, giving disadvantaged students the opportunity to overcome initial deficits."
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SAGrader Benefits Can Outweigh Costs in First Semester
"SAGrader... pay[s] for itself within the first semester... Expected costs for subsequent semesters or when pre-constructed assignments are used should be substantially lower than the costs for comparable hand-grading."
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What Do Students Think About Using SAGrader For Essay Grading?
"Virtually all students like the immediate feedback, the detailed comments, and the opportunity to revise and improve their paper. Most think it is fair even in its first assessment. They prefer automatic essay grading over traditional multiple choice tests by almost two to one."
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