Texas becameUSAThe first state to publicly adopt artificial intelligence for grading exams.Texas recently announced the Academic Readiness Assessment (STAAR) The written portion of the exam will be scored by students using an “automatic scoring engine”.
STAAR is an exam given at the end of each school year in Texas to assess the abilities of public school students in grades 3 to 12. The STAAR exam is based on the Texas curriculum standards and covers core subjects including reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies.
Texas, USA, began to promote STAAR exam reform in 2023. The revised exam reduced multiple-choice questions and the number of open-ended questions was 7 times that of the previous one.
Jose Rios, director of student assessment at TEA, said that future exams will promote open-ended answers as much as possible, but he also admitted that evaluating the content of these students' answers requires more time, energy and financial resources.
The Texas Education Agency (TEA) said machines cannot completely replace human graders, at least not yet. The agency hired about 200,000 people in 2023. 6000 In the past, there were 10 temporary raters to rate the students. However, this year, by deploying the AI scoring system, the number of temporary raters can be reduced to 2000 people.
According to the Texas Tribune, AI ScoringAfter the system,Saves the state more than $20 million per year(currently about 145 million RMB), which was previously used to hire human raters from third-party contractors.