Corrected: This story originally gave an incorrect first name for the spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She is Beth Gaydos. Could a computer really be a good judge of student ...

Florida’s plans to add computerized grading of its new statewide writing test could eventually eliminate the need for a writing test, advocates for the technology said. Essays on Florida’s new writing ...

Nadeem Sarwar remembered all the lessons on good writing drummed into him by his ninth-grade teacher at the Newport School in Montgomery County. So last summer when he took the GMAT, the standard ...

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 ...

We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote. The new technology could pose a challenge for college admissions ...

Here's a little pop quiz. Multiple-choice tests are useful because: A: They're cheap to score. B: They can be scored quickly. C: They score without human bias. D: All of the above. It would take a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Multiple-choice tests are a pretty terrible way of measuring students’ understanding of complex concepts, but overextended teachers rely on fill-in-the-bubble exams because they’re easy to mark. There ...

COLUMBIA, MO. - Student essays always seem to be riddled with the same sorts of flaws. So sociology professor Ed Brent decided to hand the work off — to a computer. Students in Brent's Introduction to ...