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, ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. The topic of this blog post comes naturally to me, as I sit surrounded by over 40 essays waiting for ...

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Part I: What are Automated Essay Scoring software programs? Automated Essay Scoring software programs can grade essays as well as humans. That was one of the key findings from a new Hewlett Foundation ...

The term Automated essay grading (AEG) essentially means when Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) are used to evaluate and grade written essays. This technology uses ...

Imagine taking a college exam, and, instead of handing in a blue book and getting a grade from a professor a few weeks later, clicking the "send" button when you are done and receiving a grade back ...

A contest is underway at data-crunching competition site Kaggle that challenges people to create “an automated scoring algorithm for student-written essays.” This is just the latest chapter in a ...

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This spring, millions of students around the country are taking standardized exams whose results could have important consequences for students, teachers and schools. The scores may be used to decide ...

How could machines that automatically grade essays lead to Deeper Learning? On the face of it, the premise sounds preposterous. But I’m increasingly convinced that there is a potentially valuable ...