The West Virginia Department of Education's auto-grading initiative dates back to 2004--a time when school districts were making their first, early forays into automation. The Charleston-based WVDE ...

A colleague of ours recently attended an AI training where the opening slide featured a list of all the ways AI can revolutionize our classrooms. Grading was listed at the top. Sure, AI can grade ...

EdX, the online learning consortium of Harvard and M.I.T., believes it is close to a workable model for the automated grading of student writing. According to Dr. Anant Argawal, President of EdX, ...

Much of the recent focus on artificial intelligence-driven ed-tech tools has been on ChatGPT and keeping students honest, but could AI keep graders on track too? The ed-tech platform Copyleaks is ...

In 2025, AI-powered writing tools now offer instant insights into grammar, clarity, structure, and argument quality. What once relied entirely on human reviewers has expanded to include platforms ...

If you are among the grading contract curious, perhaps you can learn from my experience and missteps along the way. This is the story of my journey in my first-year writing course where I only managed ...

When Avery Nixon started college in fall 2021 at Montclair State University in New Jersey, she was anxious about her writing proficiency after struggling academically in high school. But on her first ...

Grading can be a time-consuming task for many teachers. Artificial intelligence tools may help ease the strain, according to a new study from the University of Georgia published in Technology, ...

In our many years as college writing instructors, we’ve graded thousands of student essays. This year, motivated by students' trauma during the pandemic, we stopped. Don’t get us wrong: We still ...

In our classes, rough drafts were always a little too rough. Grading the rough draft was not an accurate impression of how far the student was from the final draft. Considering something better than a ...

Writing is taught as both an art and a science. As we go higher in the grades, student writing becomes longer and genres broaden. Teacher loads get higher as well. A high school English teacher could ...

Our students don’t write to impress a rubric--they write to be heard, and using AI to grade student writing misses the mark.