More States Opting To 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays By Computer

More States Opting To 'Robo-Grade' Student Essays By Computer
Tovia Smith, NPR, 2018/07/02
The thought of writing an essay that will be read by literally no one feels a bit odd to me, but I guess it's not a great stretch from those essays I wrote which were read by exactly one person. And "with computers already doing jobs as complicated and as fraught as driving cars, detecting cancer, and carrying on conversations, they can certainly handle grading students' essays," writes Tovia Smith. More...