Can AI support human grading? Examining machine attention and confidence in short answer scoring

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Yuheng Li, Mladen Rakovic, Namrata Srivastava, Xinyu Li, Quanlong Guan, Dragan Gasevic, Guanliang Chen

Published: 01 Jan 2025, Last Modified: 12 May 2025Comput. Educ. 2025EveryoneRevisionsBibTeXCC BY-SA 4.0
Abstract: Highlights•Machine and human graders share similar estimations of scoring difficulty.•Machine and human graders focus on a similar set of words to assess answer quality.•Insights drawn from machine grading hold great promises to facilitate human grading.