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Bridgeman et al. (2009) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242203403_Considering_Fairness_and_Validity_in_Evaluating_Automated_Scoring pdf]
Bridgeman et al. (2009) [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/242203403_Considering_Fairness_and_Validity_in_Evaluating_Automated_Scoring pdf]
* Automated scoring models for evaluating English essays, or e-rater  
* Automated scoring models for evaluating English essays, or e-rater  
* E-rater gave significantly higher score for 11th grade essays written by Asian American and Hispanic students, particularly, Hispanic female students
* E-Rater gave significantly better scores for 11th grade essays written by Hispanic students and Asian-American students than White students
* The score difference between human rater and e-rater was significantly smaller for 11th grade essays written by White and African American students
 
* E-rater gave slightly lower score for GRE essays (argument and issue) written by Black test-takers while e-rated scores were higher for Asian test-takers in the U.S





Revision as of 16:20, 18 May 2022

Christie et al. (2019) pdf

  • Models predicting student's high school dropout
  • The decision trees showed little difference in AUC among White, Black, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian and Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander.


Bridgeman et al. (2009) pdf

  • Automated scoring models for evaluating English essays, or e-rater
  • E-Rater gave significantly better scores for 11th grade essays written by Hispanic students and Asian-American students than White students


Lee and Kizilcec (2020) pdf

  • Models predicting college success (or median grade or above)
  • Random forest algorithms performed significantly worse for underrepresented minority students (URM; American Indian, Black, Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, Hispanic, and Multicultural) than non-URM students (White and Asian)
  • The fairness of the model, namely demographic parity and equality of opportunity, as well as its accuracy, improved after correcting the threshold values from 0.5 to group-specific values