On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:57 +0200, Martin Langhoff wrote: > 2009/8/19 NoiseEHC <noise...@freemail.hu>: > > > >> - Automatic assessment is snake oil, Bryan is well intentioned but > >> deeply wrong. See the earlier email at > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org/msg05584.html
I agree that automatic assessment is no magic cure-all but it does free teachers from a lot of drudgery in grading worksheets. Teachers should be grading student essays not arithmetic exercises or vocabulary exercises. We especially need automatic assessment for contexts where teachers don't have time to grade homework, like Nepal, India, Pakistan, etc. I think that Karma is approaching from a much different vantage point than teachers in the developed world do. We are not looking to capture "excellence" but rather diagnose if kids are having trouble with basic skills and give kids instant feedback rather than make them wait a week to get their graded homework back, if it ever comes back. -- Bryan W. Berry Technology Director OLE Nepal, http://www.olenepal.org _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel
