System and Method for Draft-Contemporaneous Essay Evaluating and Interactive Editing
The present invention is a computer-based method and system to provide a student of language arts or a language-arts program component automated feedback on an essay. Assignment Input including Essay Prompt, Key Themes, and a Sample Essay are loaded onto a computer device. Contemporaneously with a student's essay writing effort, a Function derives Specific Metric Values for each of the Assignment Input and Student Input, compares the values, and provides real-time feedback to the student based upon the Values' relative positions along a spectrum. The Metric Values may also be output to a node monitored by an instructor.
1 . A method of essay evaluation, comprising:
establishing communication between a server and one or more devices;
the server receiving one or more human-language-drafted essays from the one or more devices;
computing the presence and relationship of certain pre-defined metrics in the one or more human-language-drafted essays during the action of drafting said human-language-drafted essays;
comparing the computed presence and relationship of certain pre-defined metrics to one or more pre-determined values;
delivering a first automated assessment based upon such comparison; and
delivering a second automated assessment and corrective instructions, the content of which is at least partially based upon deviance of metrics from pre-determined values.
2 . The method of claim 1 , the human-language-drafted essays being in written form of any human language.
3 . The method of claim 1 , the human-language-drafted essays being of any type including at least a paragraph of text on a subject in the Humanities and/or Social Sciences.
4 . The method of claim 1 , the pre-defined metrics being sought regardless of essay type.
5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising said first automated assessment being delivered to an instructor or other human monitor.
6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising said second automated assessment and corrective instructions being delivered to at least the author of the essay.
7 . The method of claim 1 , the first automated assessment and the second automated assessment and corrective instructions delivered contemporaneously with the drafting of the essay.
8 . A system of essay evaluation, comprising:
a first user interface;
one or more second user interfaces;
a server having a processor in communication with said one or more second user interfaces;
the server receiving one or more human-language-drafted essays from the one or more devices;
computing the presence and relationship of certain pre-defined metrics in the one or more human-language-drafted essays during the action of drafting said human-language-drafted essays;
comparing the computed presence and relationship of certain pre-defined metrics to one or more pre-determined values;
delivering to said first user interface a first automated assessment based upon such comparison; and
delivering to said one or more second user interfaces a second automated assessment and corrective instructions, the content of which being based upon deviance of metrics from pre-determined values.
9 . The system of claim 8 , the human-language-drafted essays being in written form of any human language.
10 . The system of claim 8 , the human-language-drafted essays being of any type including at least a paragraph of text on a subject in the Humanities and/or Social Sciences.
11 . The system of claim 8 , the pre-defined metrics being sought regardless of essay type.
12 . The system of claim 8 , the first automated assessment being delivered to an instructor or other human monitor.
13 . The system of claim 8 , the second automated assessment and corrective instructions being delivered to at least the author of the essay.
14 . The system of claim 8 , the first automated assessment and the second automated assessment and corrective instructions delivered contemporaneously with the drafting of the essay.