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 ...

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 ...

edX, the provider of massive open online courses, will offer free test-grading software, The New York Times reported. Officials at edX said that the service will use artificial intelligence to grade ...

In online education, a majority of professors in the humanities chose to utilize the online learning platform Moodle to assign work to students. While the software aimed to improve the teaching ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you’re a teacher who’s wanted to throw away a paper grade book, now is a good time. Once you switch to a grade-book application, you won’t have to do the math to determine your students’ grades, ...

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 ...