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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As you know if you teach at a U.S. public school – or even if you just read the June 2013 New York Times feature about it – a consortium of state boards of education recently decided that we should ...

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 ...

Developers say they understand why teachers would be skeptical. But, they insist, computers already drive cars and detect cancer, so they can... More States Opting To 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays By ...