“Online grading is atrociously bad,” Livengood said. “I found there is something about having to grade in an online environment that is intellectually harder to do. I’m spending three or four times as ...

Jeff Pence knows the best way for his 7th grade English students to improve their writing is to do more of it. But with 140 students, it would take him at least two weeks to grade a batch of their ...

Editor’s Note: Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of “The Art of Teaching.” His novel “The Last Station” was made into an Academy ...

One of the great white whales of computer-managed education and testing is the dream of robo-scoring, software that can grade a piece of writing as easily and efficiently as software can score ...

EdX, the consortium of universities, including Georgetown, that offers Massive Open Online Courses for free, introduced experimental software last week that uses artificial intelligence to grade and ...

April 30 marks the deadline for a contest challenging software developers to create an automated scorer of student essays, otherwise known as a roboreader, that performs as good as a human expert ...

Mimir Corp., an Indianapolis-based developer of software used in computer science classrooms, announced on Thursday morning that it plans to expand its downtown headquarters and add up to 102 ...

College students pulling all-nighters to carefully craft their essays may soon be denied the dignity of having a human being actually grade their work. A non-profit in Massachusetts, edX, is promoting ...

I’ve been teaching English in college for 40 years, and I’ve never met a single professor who likes grading. “Hate” is too strong a word for what they feel. But nobody likes it. The fun stuff is ...