PTT托福板友们大家好，
我是SK2 TOEFL实力养成班教学顾问Vivian.
9月是暑假完成课程同学们首战托福的重要月份，
若距离考试剩2-3周，我会叮咛大家要开始练习计时的临场感。
ETS因应新制托福上路开发了一些不错的工具，
其中写作Task 2有非常接近正式考试UI的接口可以练官方释出的练习题与计时，
更能使用AI Rater评分作文。
Task 2练习接口在这里：
https://www.ets.org/toefl/test-takers/ibt/prepare/practice-tests.html
近日有很多认真的学生拿AI评估的结果与我讨论，
我们来看看不同分数区间的差异：
题目：
Which approach do you think is better:
Giving grades based only on performance, or grading students not just on
performance but also on their effort?
以下为学生10分钟内写完的版本；可能有under timed conditions的typo.
(AI Score: 4.0)
In my opinion, Kelly is right when she said that a perfromance
based evaluation is more reasonable. It is by far the most
efficient and recognizable way of grading, consider evaluating
ones effort is abstract and time-consuming. I'd added that
students' effort will show on their grades under most of the
conditions. On the contrary, when a student doesn't really put
effort into their work, their performance will definitely have
many errors. When a hard-working student spend hours on
assignments or tests to completely figure out what are the core
comcept and correct answer, they can get good performance easily
based on their hard work. That is to say, I think evaluating with
performance without considering effort is fair and benefits
students learning curve. Other than considering students' side, it
is more managable for teacher to grade students based on
identical criteria that is quantfiable.
再来是修改过后的版本，这次AI给Score of 5.0:
In my opinion, Kelly is right when she said that a perfromance
based evaluation is more reasonable. It is by far the most common
way of grading, consider evaluating ones effort is time-consuming
and hard to quantifiable. I'd added that students' effort will
show on their grades under most of the conditions. When a
hard-working student spend hours on assignments to completely
figure out the concepts and tips on finishing it, they can get
good result easily based on their what they've learned. On the
contrary, when students don't really put effort into works, their
result would have many errors and they don't really learn stuff.
For example, I usually start preparing for an exam 2 weeks before,
but once I forgot to mark an upcoming exam on my calander. The
time that I found out and started to study was 3 days before it.
Not having enough preparation bought me terrible result on that
exam, for sure. To sum up, I think grading without counting effort
is fair and resonable.
不知道同学们看不看得出来两个版本的差异呢？
ETS在相同网页中提供了scoring guide给大家参考：
4.0-5.0区间：
You made a well-supported, relevant contribution to the discussion,
and your ideas are easy to understand.
Weaknesses, if there are any, might have to do with:
-use of English that is occasionally ungrammatical, unclear or unidiomatic
-the elaboration of your viewpoint needing a little more detail or explanation
以上内容两者最大不同是，5.0的版本多了“举例”，
而且其中两句重新排列，使逻辑较为通顺。
AI是根据ETS公布的标准评分的，
因此所有考生应该都要对于Rubrics了若指掌：
https://www.ets.org/pdfs/toefl/toefl-ibt-writing-rubrics-enhanced.pdf
换句话说，只要充分了解题目的requirements与评分rubrics标准，
同学们将对练习方向会清楚不少。
当然ETS最后给分还要经过人工审核，
所以同学们使用这个AI工具只能当成初步分析自我表现的工具；
详细的feedback（是否切题、更进一步的改善建议）
还是要由有经验的老师们给予。
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