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TruScore™ is a cutting-edge, automated solution available to meet the need for immediate, accurate, and low-cost scoring of short-answer and essay items. It is a highly reliable and cost-effective alternative to hand scoring student responses and is currently deployed in both classroom and summative assessment environments. Use of TruScore can eliminate the time required for receipt of scores and data for classroom-based assessments. Plus, more importantly, TruScore minimizes the time teachers have to spend on grading. For summative online assessments, TruScore can produce immediate scores and even serve as a validation step in ensuring human reader reliability.
TruScore Automated Scoring is a unique system that utilizes the latest advances in information technology, combined with natural language processing and statistical modeling, to easily and accurately score open-ended test questions, including writing prompts. For writing, the TruScore system instantly delivers holistic or trait-based feedback and identifies and flags unusual and non-scorable responses.
TruScore offers:
Cost effectiveness
TruScore reduces time and costs incurred in hand scoring processes associated with personnel, facilities, and training.
Immediate turnaround
TruScore can provide scores and feedback to students in seconds.
Consistent and reliable scoring
Studies have shown that TruScore scores as accurately as human raters. Data from TruScore can help identify and correct rater drift as it occurs rather than in a later review of the assigned scores.
Proven applications
TruScore is used for rapidly scoring student responses in statewide high-stakes summative assessments in Algebra 1, Geometry, and English II. TruScore is used for scoring student responses to short-answer formative assessment items in math, reading and science.
Flexibility
The TruScore system is a web service that integrates easily with testing platforms using a standardized API. Plus, TruScore can be configured to score the wide variety of items already used in state-level and classroom assessments.