Advantages IEA is the only grading application on the market that measures meaning and content. Others just use surface features of the essay, such as length, spelling, grammar, and lists of keywords. To get a good grade, the student must write a good essay. IEA supplements teacher interaction with an independent learning tool for knowledge acquisition.
Students can put what they know into words and find out how well they've done.
Operating as a web-based service, the Intelligent Essay Assessor supplies instantaneous feedback on the content and conceptual quality of the student's writing. Extensive research and testing of IEA's assessment capability has proven it to be as valid as a teacher's or a professional grader's, but faster, cheaper, and effortless. In trials with middle school children, IEA's tutorial feedback taught children to write quantitatively better essays than their peers, even when tested weeks later. Technology The Intelligent Essay Assessor uses Latent Semantic Analysis, a machine-learning algorithm that accurately mimics human understanding of language. This patented and proprietary technology is based on over 10 years of corporate and university research and development.