Criterion®
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Criterion®
The Criterion® Online Writing Evaluation service is a web-based, instructor-led writing tool that helps students plan, write and revise their essays. It gives students immediate diagnostic feedback and opportunities to practice writing at their own pace. This service offers instructors and administrators at schools, universities and learning institutions a comprehensive writing solution to help improve student results by freeing up valuable classroom time for practicing higher level writing skills and working on areas of improvement.
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topics at various skill levels included in the Criterion library for instructors to choose from
access from where there is an internet connection
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Thanks to Criterion in-depth reports that complement their student management systems, instructors can easily monitor writing performance. Criterion can help instructors benchmark students’ writing, track progress, make language level placement decisions, and tailor their lessons. Administrators can use the Criterion service to measure student progress and determine necessary programme improvements. The patented e-rater® scoring engine, developed by ETS, provides both annotated diagnostic feedback and holistic scoring using level-specific models based on essays pre-scored by ETS-trained readers. Students can use these evaluations to revision as they re-write their essay submissions.
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Students can use these evaluations for revision as they re-write and resubmit their essays for evaluation. The computer-generated holistic score is aligned to each grade/level based on models built from essays previously scored by human readers. The holistic score reflects the overall quality of the writing. It is a single numerical score given to the essay. Scores range from 1 to 6 or 1 to 4.
Criterion® helps you benchmark writing, track progress, make language level placement decisions and guide instruction.
To help improve classroom efficiency, this tool provides instructors with online, real-time access to instructor-specific writing assignments. The variety of topics readily available helps instructors save time grading papers allowing them to fully concentrate on the content and style of their students’ work. Criterion has customisable reports, which allow instructors to review student progress and highlight areas of improvement.
The Criterion Online Writing Evaluation Service also provides students with unlimited opportunities to practice and improve their writing, which can help them achieve higher test scores. Criterion offers instant feedback and scores so students can improve their skills with confidence.
Instructors have more than 400 topics at various skill levels in the Criterion library to choose from.
- Creation of customised topics by the teacher
- Diagnosis in grammar, spelling, language functioning, use, style, organisation and development
- Opportunities for interactions between teacher and student
- Adapted to programmes at all levels
- Online training and individual customer support
