This demo highlights how Feedback Aide uses sources to accurately score learner responses. You’ll evaluate two student responses to assess how they use textual evidence, explain figurative language, and interpret the author’s descriptive techniques. Feedback Aide automatically recognizes references to the source in the student response and uses the rubric to generate aligned scores and summary feedback, ensuring the evidence and analysis given is relevant to the text passage. Teachers save time while still delivering targeted feedback, and students receive clear guidance on how to deepen their analysis and use evidence more effectively. Responses 1, 2, and 3 show varying degrees of mastery, as can be seen by the feedback.
What should I do?
1. Start by clicking Generate Feedback for each response.
2. After these are scored by Feedback Aide, review the 'Summary of feedback' to see the justifications behind the scores.
3. Need to change something? Use Manual Grading to fine-tune the feedback, then click 'Save/Submit scores' when you’re ready.
What is a Source?
A source in an assessment is a passage, excerpt, image, map, graph, or other stimulus that students must interpret and analyze to complete a task. Sources ground student thinking in specific content and allow tasks to assess not just recall or opinion, but interpretation, reasoning, and evidence use. This helps build the skills students need not just for academic success, but for interpreting texts and information in the real world.