Interview with Les Perelman
Mainstream Media on Perelman
Videos
Colbert Report, The. (n.d.). Stephen’s sound advice - How to ace the SATs. Retrieved from http://thecolbertreport.cc.com/videos/0mg8t8/stephen-s-sound-advice---how-to-ace-the-sats
Melvin, Craig. (2014, March 8). Will SAT changes lead to even playing field? Retrieved from http://www.msnbc.com/craig-melvin/watch/will-sat-changes-lead-to-even-playing-field-187682371541
Audio interviews
AirTalk, KPCC. (2012, April 23). Robots stole my job! Essay grading edition [Debate with Mark Shermis]. Retrieved from http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2012/04/23/26149/can-a-computer-correct-your-college-essay
Bloom, Molly. (2012, June 7). Computers grade essays fast... but not always well. Morning Edition NPR. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/2012/06/07/154452475/computers-grade-essays-fast-but-not-always-well
Cody, Anthony. (2014, May 3). Computerized grading: Purloining the analysis, the most fundamental exposition of humanity. Education Week Teacher Blogs: Living in Dialogue. Retrieved from http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2014/05/computerized_grading_purloinin.html?cmp=SOC-SHR-FB
Off, Carol, & Douglas, Jeff. (2014, April 29). Automated grading FAIL: Computer-generated essays earn A+ marks. As It Happens. Retrieved from http://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/tuesday-clippers-owner-comments-broken-leg-marathon-winner-squirrel-artist-and-more-1.2903773/automated-grading-fail-computer-generated-essays-earn-a-marks-1.2903782
Radio Boston, WBUR. (2013, April 8). Can a computer grade an essay? Retrieved from http://radioboston.wbur.org/2013/04/08/grading
Sunday Extra, Australian Broadcasting Company. (2013, May 12). Using AI to mark assignments. Retrieved from http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sundayextra/assignments/4684038
Wertheimer, Linda. (2005, May 7). MIT professor finds fault with SAT essay. NPR. Retrieved from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4634566
Print and online media
Balf, Todd. (2014, March 6). The story behind the SAT overhaul. The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/magazine/the-story-behind-the-sat-overhaul.html
Barshay, Jill. (2014, March 25). New Common Core exams will test whether a robo-grader is as accurate as a human. The Hechinger Report. Retrieved from http://hechingerreport.org/content/new-common-core-exams-will-test-whether-robo-grader-accurate-human_15312/
Bazerman, Charles, & Paradis, Jeffery G. (1991). Textual dynamics of the professions: Historical and contemporary studies of writing in professional communities. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press.
Beauty of Brevity, The [Editorial]. (2005, May 6). The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved from http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2005-05-06/news/0505060291_1_writing-essay-facts
Brancaccio, David, & Abendschein, Dan. (2014, April 30). A computer program to write your essays. Marketplace. Retrieved from http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/education/computer-program-write-your-essays
California Policy Issues. (2014, May 10). The Babel generator. UCLA Faculty Association. Retrieved from http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-babel-generator.html
Drum, Kevin. (2012, April 29). Human beings not as impressive as you think. Mother Jones. Retrieved from http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2012/04/human-beings-not-impressive-you-think
Eadicicco, Lisa. (2014, April 29). This software can write a grade-A college paper in less than a second. Business Insider. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/babel-generator-mit-2014-4
Gonchar, Michael. (2014, March 7). How much does the SAT or ACT matter in your life? The New York Times Learning Network. Retrieved from http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/how-much-does-the-sat-or-act-matter-in-your-life/
Harris, Lynn. (2005, May 17). Testing, testing. Salon. Retrieved from http://www.salon.com/2005/05/17/sat_5/
Jaschik, Scott. (2007, March 26). Fooling the College Board. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/03/26/writing
Jaschik, Scott. (2010, July 8). How to test writing. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/07/08/clep
Jaschik, Scott. (2011, Februrary 21a). Can you trust automated grading? Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2011/02/21/debate_over_reliability_of_automated_essay_grading
Jaschik, Scott. (2011, February 21b). Grading essays: Humans vs. machine. USA Today. Retrieved fromhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-02-21-automated-grading-essay_N.htm
Kolowich, Steve. (2012, April 13). A win for the robo-readers. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/13/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders#sthash.abv2uZWC.dpbs
Kolowich, Steve. (2014, April 28). Writing instructor, skeptical of automated grading, pits machine vs. machine. The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Writing-Instructor-Skeptical/146211
Leamy, Elisabeth. (2010, November 5). Has teen unlocked the secret to a better SAT score? ABC News. Retrieved from http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/ConsumerNews/teen-student-finds-longer-sat-essay-equals-score/story?id=12061494
Malady, Matthew. J. X. (2013, October 10). We are teaching high school students to write terribly. Slate. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com/articles/life/education/2013/10/sat_essay_section_problems_with_grading_instruction_and_prompts.html
Markoff, John. (2013, April 4). Essay-grading software offers professors a break. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/05/science/new-test-for-computers-grading-essays-at-college-level.html
Nelson, Libby. (2014, April 29). Machine-generated nonsense might score better than you on the GMAT. Vox. Retrieved from http://www.vox.com/2014/4/29/5664310/machine-generated-nonsense-might-score-better-than-you-on-the-gmat
Owen, David. (2006, April 3). The SAT’s watchdog. The New Yorker. Retrived from http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/04/03/060403ta_talk_owen
Porter, Andrew, McMaken, Jennifer, Hwang, Jun, & Yang, Rui. (2011). Common core standards: The new US intended curriculum. Educational Researcher, 40(3), 103–116. doi:10.3102/0013189X11405038
Ravitch, Diane. (2014, June 17). Writing expert: Computer scoring by PARCC-Pearson tests is fundamentally flawed. Diane Ravitch’s blog. Retrieved from http://dianeravitch.net/2014/06/17/writing-expert-computer-scoring-by-parcc-pearson-tests-is-fundamentally-flawed/
Rivard, Ry. (2013, March 15). Humans fight over robo-readers. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/03/15/professors-odds-machine-graded-essays#sthash.lNzmJb2U.dpbs
Robertson, Adi. (2012, April 23). How to game a robotic essay grader: big words matter, factual accuracy doesn’t. The Verge. Retrieved from http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/23/2969331/erater-robotic-essay-grader-effectiveness
Schrefer, Eliot. (2012, January 31). What the monster wrote: How will the College Board grade a well-written endorsement of evil? The Huffington Post Education Blog. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eliot-schrefer/college-board-sat-essay_b_1242189.html
Strauss, Valerie. (2013, October 22). Colbert is hilarious on “robo teachers” and Common Core. The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/10/22/colbert-is-hilarious-on-robo-teachers-and-common-core/
Strauss, Valerie. (2014, October 24). Is MIT researcher being censored by Educational Testing Service? The Washington Post. Retrieved from http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/10/24/is-mit-researcher-being-censored-by-educational-testing-service/
Webster, Andrew. (2014, April 29). This machine can write a grade-A paper in less than a second. The Verge. Retrieved from http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/29/5664404/babel-essay-writing-machine
Weiss, Joanna. (2014, March 14). The man who killed the SAT essay. The Boston Globe. Retrieved from http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2014/03/13/the-man-who-killed-sat-essay/L9v3dbPXewKq8oAvOUqONM/story.html
Winerip, Michael. (2005, May 4). SAT essay test rewards length and ignores errors of fact. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/education/sat-essay-test-rewards-length-and-ignores-errors.html
Winerip, Michael. (2012, April 22). Facing a robo-grader? Just keep obfuscating mellifluously. The New York Times. Retrieved from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/education/robo-readers-used-to-grade-test-essays.html