Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Having just adapted to a newly reformatted state test, school leaders across Texas are now looking at a new change in how their ...

Some Texas school administrators were surprised this month to learn short written responses on the newly redesigned state assessment will be scored by a computer program instead of human graders. The ...

DALLAS — The Dallas ISD superintendent questioned whether an increase in students scoring zeroes on the written response portion of their STAAR exams can be attributed to a new computer grading system ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - Computers are grading your child's state tests. No, not just all those fill-in-the bubble multiple choice questions. The longer answers and essays too. After Ohio started using ...

The number of elementary school students who received a zero on their state standardized essay test questions this spring increased by about 20% from last year. Among all third- to eighth-graders, ...

But three computer programs used together can give fingerprint grading unprecedented consistency and objectivity, according to Penn State researchers. "People leave behind all kinds of fingerprints, ...

Some internet eyebrows shot up this week over headlines like “San Diego school districts overhauls grading system to combat racism.” It turns out that what San Diego is doing is following in the ...

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 ...

Having just adapted to a newly reformatted state test, school leaders across Texas are now looking at a new change in how their students are assessed: computer-based scoring. The Texas Education ...