Could a computer really be a good judge of student writing? Pennsylvania education officials, who have tested computerized essay scoring with about 30,000 students, say yes.

A new study finds little difference between the quality of essay-scoring from software programs when compared with trained human scorers.

This is a developing story and will be updated throughout the day. Texas superintendents — and at least one lawmaker — want answers from the state education commissioner about how computers ...

news Education Computers scoring Texas students’ STAAR essay answers, state officials say Amid debates about AI and technology in schools, the Texas Education Agency quietly rolled out a new ...

Mark Shermis, dean of the University of Akron's College of Education, recently co-authored a study of nine different essay-grading computer programs.

The Texas Education Agency rolled out the new “automated scoring engine,” a computer-based grading system, in December, the Dallas Morning News reported.

We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote.

Computer grading will destroy our schools Feeding essays into a computer program tells students: No one cares what you have to say ...

The Texas Education Agency rolled out the new “automated scoring engine,” a computer-based grading system, in December, the Dallas Morning News reported.