I've recently been doing some of every academic's favorite activity - marking student essays (papers). Here's a few observations on essays and on marking them. 1. Marking Essays is Subjective This is ...

Some call it "robo-marking" and it's about to be put to the test. Next year, for the first time, essays written by school children as part of their national literacy and numeracy tests will be marked ...

Software can now mark essays, but will it make students write like robots?, asks the New Scientist's Jim Giles. Software can now mark essays, but will it make students write like robots? It is an idea ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Education ministers have quietly ditched plans for so-called "robot marking" of student essays in the Australia-wide NAPLAN testing ...

This Eurostars grant will allow us to continue pushing the boundaries of e-assessment and bring our technology to even more organisations worldwide.” — Vegard Sivertsen, CEO of Cirrus Assessment ...