SmartMarq: Human and AI Essay marking
Easily manage the essay marking process, then use modern machine learning models to serve as a second or third rater, reducing costs and timelines.
Comprehensive solution for scoring open-response items
SmartMarq is available as both a standalone platform and directly integrated into our assessment platform – making a seamless end-to-end solution for your educational assessments.
Reduce timelines
Cut the time needed to manage essay marking in half – or more.
Increase convenience
Your raters will appreciate the time saved and easy-to-use interface.
Custom rules
Create your own rubrics, benchmarks, and routing rules.
Implement AI
Implement automated essay scoring to flag unusual scores.
SmartMarq will streamline your essay marking process
SmartMarq makes it easy to implement large-scale, professional essay scoring. Set up your rules and run the essays through the human marking module. Once raters are done, run the results through our AI to train a custom machine learning model for your data, obtaining a second “rater.”
Note that our powerful AI scoring is customized, specific to each one of your prompts and rubrics – not developed with a shotgun approach based on general heuristics.
Fully integrated into our FastTest ecosystem
We pride ourselves on providing a single ecosystem with configurable modules that covers the entire test development and delivery cycle. SmartMarq is available both standalone, and as part of our online delivery platform. If you have open-response items, especially extended constructed response (ECR) items, our platforms will improve the process needed to mark these items. Leverage our user-friendly, highly scalable online marking module to manage hundreds (or just a few) raters, with single or multi-marking situations.
“FastTest reduced the workhours needed to mark our student essays by approximately 60%, cutting it from a multi-day district-wide project to a single day!”
A K-12 FastTest Client
Sign up for a SmartMarq account
Simply upload your student essays and human marking results, and our AI essay scoring system will provide an additional set of marks.
Need a complete platform to manage the entire assessment cycle, from item banking to online delivery to scoring? FastTest provides the ideal solution. It includes an integrated version of SmartMarq with advanced options like scoring rubrics with the Generalized Partial Credit Model.
Manage Users
Upload users and manage assignments to groups of students.
Create Rubrics
Create your rubrics, including point values and descriptor.
Tag Rubrics to Items
When authoring items, simply assign the rubrics you want to use.
Set Marking Rules
Require multiple markers, adjudication of disagreements, and visibility limitations? Users can be specified to see only THEIR students, or have the entire population anonymized and randomized. Configure as you need.
Deliver tests online
Students write their essays or other ECR responses.
Users mark responses
Users (e.g., teachers) log in and mark student responses on your specified rubrics, as well as flag responses or leave comments. Admins can adjudicate any disagreements.
AI & machine learning
Run the human rater results through our secure algorithms for natural language processing and machine learning, to calibrate a custom model specific to your prompt and rubric.
Score examinees
Use the ML model to score examinees as a second or third rater, allowing you to compare to the human raters.
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