Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0669242

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0669242

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

An Intelligent Automated Essay Marking Tool-MarkIT for Education Sector. Making and grading essays is estimated to cost around AUD$2 Billion in Australia each year. It takes up approximately a third of the teachers' time. An Automated Essay Grading System would mean significant financial savings in the education sector both public and private. It would also free up teachers to concentrate on higher level pedagogical tasks resulting in a better quality of education. The potential for sales overseas for such a system are also great.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2007

End Date: 12-2013

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $530,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Assessment And Evaluation | Computer Software Not Elsewhere Classified | Information Systems Not Elsewhere Classified | Specialist Studies in Education

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Application tools and system utilities | Computer software and services not elsewhere classified |

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