A philosopher friend once told me about a concept he called “work-work balance.” As we progress in our careers, he explained, we should seek an acceptable equilibrium between tasks we enjoy and ones ...

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 ...

When Diane Gayeski, a professor of strategic communications at Ithaca College, receives an essay from one of her students, she runs part of it through ChatGPT, asking the AI tool to critique and ...

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 ...

Using machines to grade standardized tests is nothing new — we’ve all heard the spiel about making sure we fill in the bubble on our answer sheet completely so the Scantron machine won’t misread it.