Automation
Student Achievement
Opinion
Preparing Students for the Gig Economy, Automation, and Uncertainty
If you could design an education system for an entire state or nation, what would it look like? Marc Tucker details some important considerations for building an education system to prepare students for a changing global economy.
Classroom Technology
Opinion
Supporting ELL Students with Automated Writing Feedback
With recent English Language Learning enhancements, efficacy studies of writing feedback systems like Criterion, PEG, and WriteToLearn will be valuable to the sector.
Assessment
Can Computerized Essay-Scoring Make Students Better Writers?
Despite the many negative associations with automated essay-scoring, there's some evidence it may actually be more effective in changing student behavior than human scoring, Annie Murphy Paul wrote recently in the Hechinger Report.
Assessment
Essay-Grading Software Seen as Time-Saving Tool
Teachers are eager for new tools to help students develop into better writers, but critics question the ability of the software to critique writing.
Reading & Literacy
Should Common Assessments Use Computers to Score Writing?
The two federally funded groups designing tests for the common standards are awaiting feedback from pilot and field testing before making the decision.
College & Workforce Readiness
Opinion
Automation, Employment, and the Importance of Vocational Education
Returning from a trip abroad, Marc Tucker explains how Australia has successfully automated almost all of the jobs in its biggest industry and how Singapore has developed a basic education system and a vocational education and training system that will sustain its future economy and workforce.
Reading & Literacy
Teacher: Software Can't Sub for Writing Instructors
English teacher Renee Moore follows up on that study finding that automated grading programs can assess student essays as effectively as human readers can. Moore says that her experience, it just so happens, has been exactly the opposite. Besides, she adds, responding to student writing is about more than just providing a grade:
Reading & Literacy
Could Automated Graders Help Writing Teachers? What About Replace Them?
A new study out of the University of Akron has found that automated grading programs can assess student essays as effectively as human readers can. The study essentially compared computer-generated ratings to those of human scorers on thousands of essays written by high school juniors and sophomores. The differences, the researchers concluded, were not significant.
Reading & Literacy
Study Supports Essay-Grading Technology
But researchers raise concerns about drawing overly broad conclusions about the effectiveness of the software.
Education
Opinion
Grading Automated Essay Scoring Programs- Part III: Classrooms
I arrive at the final of my three part series of Automated Essay Score Predictors.In this final post, I offer a scenario of how Automated Essay Score Predictors could be used in a progressive history course in an elite private school.
Education
Opinion
Grading Automated Essay Scoring Programs- Part II: Policy
How could machines that automatically grade essays lead to Deeper Learning? On the face of it, the premise sounds preposterous. But I'm increasingly convinced that there is a potentially powerful policy strategy here, and this post provides an overview. But first, a review of what Automated Essay Scoring programs are.
Curriculum
Man vs. Machine vs. Five-Paragraph Essay?
There's a lot of banter going on right now about a new study that suggests automated essay graders can be as effective as humans.
Education
Opinion
Grading Automated Essay Scoring Programs- Part I (@bjfr)
Automated Essay Scoring software programs can grade essays as well as humans. That was one of the key findings from a new Hewlett Foundation study of Automated Essay Scoring (AES) tools produced by eight commercial vendors and one open source entry from Carnegie Mellon University.
School & District Management
Man vs. Computer: Who Wins the Essay-Scoring Challenge?
A new study finds little difference between the quality of essay-scoring from software programs when compared with trained human scorers.