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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Would you rather have an actual person score your carefully crafted essay, or an automated software program designed for that purpose? I’d still take the flawed human being any day—assuming, of course ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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