M-STEP
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This semester, I took a course in writing assessment. Throughout the course, I was surprised to learn the extent to which technology plays a role in contemporary writing assessments. We discussed a number of large-scale assessments which depend on Automated Essay Scoring (AES), including the GRE and other high-stakes test. For my final project, I investigated the M-STEP (Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress) because the state legislature recently passed a law requiring third grade students who failed the ELA portion to be retained. I found that high-stakes decisions were to be made on a test that in its second iteration dropped all requirements for students to write (no AES needed here) and relied instead on a computer-adaptive, multiple choice questions.
This semester, I took a course in writing assessment. Throughout the course, I was surprised to learn the extent to which technology plays a role in contemporary writing assessments. We discussed a number of large-scale assessments which depend on Automated Essay Scoring (AES), including the GRE and other high-stakes test. For my final project, I investigated the M-STEP (Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress) because the state legislature recently passed a law requiring third grade students who failed the ELA portion to be retained. I found that high-stakes decisions were to be made on a test that in its second iteration dropped all requirements for students to write (no AES needed here) and relied instead on a computer-adaptive, multiple choice questions.
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