SmartMarq: Human and AI Essay scoring

Easily manage the essay scoring process, then use modern machine learning models to serve as a second or third rater, reducing costs and timelines.

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Define Rubrics

Create your scoring rubrics and performance descriptors

Manage Raters

Assign essays to be scored, then view results

Gather Ratings

Raters can easily move through and leave scores and comments

Auto-Scoring

Implement automated essay scoring to flag unusual scores

SmartMarq will streamline your essay scoring process

SmartMarq makes it easy to implement large-scale, professional essay scoring.

Reduce timelines for marking
Increase convenience by managing fully online
Implement business rules to ensure quality
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.

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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!”

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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.
Score examinees
Examinees will be automatically scored. For example, if your test has 40 multiple choice items and an essay with two 5-point rubrics, the total score is 50. We also support the generalized partial credit model from item response theory, or exporting results to analyze in other software like FACETS.

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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.

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SmartMarq: Human and AI Essay scoring

Define Rubrics

Manage Raters

Gather Ratings

Auto-Scoring

SmartMarq will streamline your essay scoring process

Fully integrated into our FastTest ecosystem

Manage Users

Create Rubrics

Tag Rubrics to Items

Set Marking Rules

Deliver tests online

Users mark responses

Score examinees

Sign up for a SmartMarq account

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