COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Stacks of student essays riddled with flaws -- the thought alone was enough to make Ed Brent look to pass on the work of his Introduction to Sociology class. Students in Brent's ...

As you know if you teach at a U.S. public school – or even if you just read the June 2013 New York Times feature about it – a consortium of state boards of education recently decided that we should ...

Some schools, looking to cut costs, are intrigued by so-called robo-readers, computer programs that grade students' writing and offer feedback.... Computers Grade Essays Fast ... But Not Always Well ...

EdX, the massive online education enterprise founded by Harvard and MIT, is about to make another big push in changing how we learn. It has to do with how instructors grade essays. You remember in ...

The Texas Education Agency is defending its decision to let computers grade students’ STAAR essay test questions in the face of mounting criticism from parents and teachers who question the fairness ...

Arlington Public Schools recently partnered with kaggle.com, an online platform that hosts predictive-modeling contests to help find new solutions to reduce the dropout rate. The same San Francisco ...

On standardized tests, computers have begun to grade, not just multiple-choice questions but even student writing such essays. Grading software evaluates essays about as well as a human on the kinds ...