Les Perelman, a former director of undergraduate writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, sits in his wife’s office and reads aloud from his latest essay. “Privateness has not been and ...

Increased quality, labor savings and tighter material yields are just a few of the benefits concrete contractors will see with laser-guided grading systems. Increased quality, labor savings and ...

Prominent writing instructor challenges a much-discussed study that found machines can grade student writing about as well as humans. Les Perelman, the former director of writing at the Massachusetts ...

While automated essay-grading machines can tackle 16,000 essays in 20 seconds, are they any good compared to a human? Online course administrators in the machine camp think so, but retired MIT prof ...

Mango grading typically takes skill and long hours of concentration, but advances in technology means increasingly fewer workers are needed in the hot and noisy packing sheds of the north. A packing ...

A little over 10 years ago in this space, I wrote a manifesto in the form of a list against the use of algorithmic grading of human writing. The occasion was the announcement that MOOC provider edX ...