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Education Research Report: April 2012
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Preschoolers reading skills benefit from 1 modest change by teachers. A small change in how teachers and parents read aloud to preschoolers may provide a big boost to their reading skills later on, a new study found. That small change involves making specific references to print in books while reading to children – such as pointing out letters and words on the pages, showing capital letters, and showing how you read from left to right and top to bottom on the page. Piasta conducted the study with lead in...
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Education Research Report: April 2012
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Archive for April 2012. Automated Essay Scoring Systems as Effective as Human Graders. A direct comparison between human graders and software designed to score student essays achieved virtually identical levels of accuracy, with the software in some cases proving to be more reliable, a groundbreaking study. In addition to looking at commercial vendors, the contest is offering $100,000 in cash prizes in a competition open to anyone to develop new automated essay scoring techniques. The open competitio...