I often say that I’d teach for free but need to be paid to grade. Grading is hard work. It’s not only time-consuming, but it is stressful, exhausting and at times even agonizing. All too often, ...

Essays have long been considered the gold standard for measuring students' understanding of a subject. But because multiple-choice tests have been graded by machines, making them easy and relatively ...

DOING YOUR JOB, AND JUST AS WELL: Here's perhaps more fuel for that "machines are taking over" bonfire: automated essay scoring engines grade just as well as humans. This, according to results from a ...

Imagine a school where every child gets instant, personalized writing help for a fraction of the cost of hiring a human teacher — and where a computer, not a person, grades a student's essays. It's ...

Computers have been helping grade multiple choice tests such as the SATs and ACTs for decades. (No. 2 pencil, please.) But the task of reading through student essays has always gone to humans--until ...