Corrected: This story originally gave an incorrect first name for the spokeswoman for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. She is Beth Gaydos. Could a computer really be a good judge of student ...

Students could soon find their essays being instantly graded by a computer - rather than waiting weeks for a professor’s ponderous comments. New software developed in the United States which means ...

Nadeem Sarwar remembered all the lessons on good writing drummed into him by his ninth-grade teacher at the Newport School in Montgomery County. So last summer when he took the GMAT, the standard ...

Nadeem Sarwar remembered all the lessons on good writing drummed into him by his ninth-grade teacher at the Newport School in Montgomery County. So last summer when he took the GMAT, the standard ...

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 ...

Computers are being used to mark American university students' essays in a project which could radically alter the teaching role of academics. Qualrus, a program developed at the University of ...

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 ...

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