We fed ChatGPT, OpenAI’s new natural language tool, college essay questions for the 2022-2023 academic year. Here’s what it wrote. The new technology could pose a challenge for college admissions ...

The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, known as STAAR , are a series of state-mandated standardized tests used in Texas schools to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge. Diane ...

Texas students’ written responses on the STAAR test will most likely be scored by a computer, rather than a person. Ben Sklar / The New York Times Texas students’ written responses on the STAAR test ...

Imagine a school where every child gets instant, personalized writing help for a fraction of the cost of hiring a human teacher — and where a computer, not a person, grades a student's essays. It's ...

Would you rather have an actual person score your carefully crafted essay, or an automated software program designed for that purpose? I’d still take the flawed human being any day—assuming, of course ...

I’d like to add one more point on the topic of my post “Computer Says B-Plus.” My modest suggestion was this: If a computer program trained on essays graded by humans could learn enough about the ...

Some schools, looking to cut costs, are intrigued by so-called robo-readers, computer programs that grade students' writing and offer feedback.... Imagine a school where every child gets instant, ...