National Examinations Council (NECO) has deployed cutting-edge software to ensure efficient grading of students/candidates in its various examinations. The registrar/chief executive of NECO, Professor ...

College students pulling all-nighters to carefully craft their essays may soon be denied the dignity of having a human being actually grade their work. A non-profit in Massachusetts, edX, is promoting ...

April 30 marks the deadline for a contest challenging software developers to create an automated scorer of student essays, otherwise known as a roboreader, that performs as good as a human expert ...

It’s true, the high end grading rooms of the early 2000’s would have set you back over a million dollars plus. Clients would come into my room in London and say “I have always wanted to work in one of ...

Jeff Pence knows the best way for his 7th grade English students to improve their writing is to do more of it. But with 140 students, it would take him at least two weeks to grade a batch of their ...

I’ve been teaching English in college for 40 years, and I’ve never met a single professor who likes grading. “Hate” is too strong a word for what they feel. But nobody likes it. The fun stuff is ...