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 ...

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 ...

Last December, Moby-Dick made one of my students gasp. It wasn’t the first time this had happened (weird book), but nothing about the text itself produced the response. For the final project in my ...

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 ...

A new report out from the National Council of Teachers of English criticizes the practice of using machine scoring for writing assessments. "Machine Scoring Fails the Test," NCTE’s new position ...

What happens here matters everywhere. by Monica Nickelsburg on June 22, 2018 at 10:50 am June 26, 2018 at 1:59 pm UW Computer Science principal lecturer Stuart Reges. (UW Photo) A University of ...