The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System is a standard school exam. Most Massachusetts students sit it. This year, about 1,400 essays got bizarrely wrong scores and had to be reassessed. Y…
    • V0ldek@awful.systemsEnglish
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      3 days ago

      At both unis I was at (U of Warsaw, TU Munich) courses with heavy loads contract out grading to students of the university. E.g. during my M.Sc. I was grading submissions for one of the B.Sc. courses I already completed. You get a small amount of money for that.

      Contracting out to a company sounds extremely USA-pilled, as in “the university does not have enough resources so, instead of increasing their budget, we use THE FREE MARKET BABY and have a company whose whole existence is dependent on that resource hole continuing to exist.”

      • aio@awful.systemsEnglish
        2·
        23 hours ago

        In this case these are grade schooler’s (roughly ages 9-18) essays for a standardized test, so there isn’t a body of students who could grade them.

      • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        Oh sure, postgrads grading and even substitute teaching occasionally is very normal here too (edit: Greece)

        For those who didn’t read the article, the culprit is a Massachusetts company called Cognia that’s apparently doing essay grading to the tune of $36.5M yearly revenue, which, what?