When ChatGPT burst onto the scene in November 2022, many educators and parents worried that new writing tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) would help their students bypass important ...

EdX, the online learning consortium of Harvard and M.I.T., believes it is close to a workable model for the automated grading of student writing. According to Dr. Anant Argawal, President of EdX, ...

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Turnitin, a popular plagiarism checker used in many schools, wants students to do more than simply turn papers in. It wants them to check their writing--and not just to cross the t’s and dot the i’s, ...

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 ...

Automated essay scoring is one of the most controversial applications of “big data” in edtech research. Writing is a deeply creative, emotive and personal endeavor. The idea that an objective, ...

Revising in response to formative feedback is a cornerstone of effective writing instruction. Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy ...