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 ...

Imagine a school where every child gets instant, personalized writing help for a fraction of the cost of hiring a human teacher — and where a computer, not a person, grades a student's essays. It's ...

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 ...

In the future, computers will be our doctors, our soldiers, our firefighters and our teachers. They’ll diagnose diseases, nurture our babies, protect our homes and teach our kids. One company is ...

Computers have been grading multiple-choice tests in schools for years. To the relief of English teachers everywhere, essays have been tougher to gauge. But look out, teachers: A new study finds that ...

A writing professor at MIT has developed a computer program that writes a college essay in one second, after you input a few key words and it actually scores pretty well on an online grading system ...

Having just adapted to a newly reformatted state test, school leaders across Texas are now looking at a new change in how their students are assessed: computer-based scoring. The Texas Education ...

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 computer about a nano-second to mark "D" as the correct answer. That's ...

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