Jeff Pence knows the best way for his 7th grade English students to improve their writing is to do more of it. But with 140 students, it would take him at least two weeks to grade a batch of their ...

EdX, the consortium of universities, including Georgetown, that offers Massive Open Online Courses for free, introduced experimental software last week that uses artificial intelligence to grade and ...

Arthur Goldstein was skeptical about trading in his paper gradebook for the online grading system Skedula. But over time, it became indispensable — and then, after a data breach last year, it was gone ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. A startup's software for standards-based grading – first ...

In online education, a majority of professors in the humanities chose to utilize the online learning platform Moodle to assign work to students. While the software aimed to improve the teaching ...

Each week, Asst. Teaching Prof. Leslie Farris gives students in her Chemistry II class a quiz to make sure they’re grasping complex topics such as thermodynamics, kinetics and chemical equilibrium.

How did my son perform on his high-school physics test this morning? Seconds after the teacher posts his score online, I can find out. With just a few more clicks, I can also tell you how the grade ...

Editor’s Note: Jay Parini, a poet and novelist, teaches at Middlebury College in Vermont. He is the author of “The Art of Teaching.” His novel “The Last Station” was made into an Academy ...