Patent ID: 8882512

Claim:
A system for scoring constructed responses generated by one or more students in response to one or more prompts, said system comprising a computer with a processor and a memory device storing a set of digital instructions executable by said processor to perform the steps of: receiving, at the computer, a plurality of constructed responses in an electronic font-based format; determining, at the computer, for each of the constructed responses, whether the constructed response is scorable, wherein the determining includes separating, at the computer, the plurality of the constructed responses into a first group of constructed responses that are scorable by the system and a second group of constructed responses that are not scorable by the system, wherein the separating includes: setting, at the computer, a code for each constructed response in the first group of constructive responses that is non-responsive; assigning, at the computer, a flag to each constructed response in only the first group of constructed responses that is non-responsive, assigning, at the computer, a predetermined score to each constructed response in only the first group of constructed responses that is non-responsive, and assigning, at the computer, a graded score to each of the responsive constructed responses in only the first group of constructed responses that is responsive; sending, from the computer, the scores for the first group of constructed responses to a score database; and submitting, from the computer, the second group of constructed responses to a hand-scoring entity for manual scoring.