Grading and Feedback
AI tools are emerging that can automate parts of the grading and feedback process to make it more efficient. AI can instantly score multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, and other objective assignment types, freeing up teacher time. For open-ended writing, AI can flag grammar errors, analyze text coherence, and detect plagiarism. While not capable of holistic grading, these AI capabilities allow teachers to focus feedback on higher-order concerns like style, reasoning, and content. Teachers should still provide personalized, qualitative feedback while leaving routine error checks to AI. Some AI tools even generate automatic feedback comments using rubrics and data analytics. Used thoughtfully, such AI grading and feedback assistance can help teachers be more strategic, targeted, and timely with their feedback while supporting student growth.
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Gradescope is an AI-powered grading and feedback platform designed to assist teachers. It allows teachers to quickly set up rubrics and automated grading for free response and essay assignments. Once students upload their work, Gradscope uses machine learning algorithms to score the assignment based on the rubric, catching common errors. Teachers can then efficiently audit and adjust the AI-generated scores as needed and provide more qualitative feedback. Gradescope also generates analytics from the rubric data, allowing teachers to identify class-wide strengths and weaknesses.
Formative AI uses natural language processing to analyze student writing assignments submitted online. The platform highlights grammar mistakes, evaluates reading comprehension, and assesses the overall quality of responses. Teachers get a reporting dashboard that summarizes class and individual student performance based on the AI assessment. While Formative AI doesn't assign actual grades, it allows teachers to spend less time on routine grading so they can prioritize providing personalized feedback.
Studyable provides instant, actionable feedback for essays that can be used to help improve your grading of student writing. The tool uses a natural language processor to analyze writing quality. It compares writing to other work to check for plagiarism. It can score short answer responses based on the expected accuracy of the answer. The website will also give a percentage score with explanation to help your decision in evaluating/scoring a students essay. This is currently a free program. There is a quick multiple choice question generation based on learning modules and grade patterns can be identified through data analytics.
Quillbot is a multi use tool that expands outside of grading but one of the highly capable features of this application is its plagiarism detection. Quillbot also offers a paraphrasing tool. Simply input text and QuillBot will instantly generate a variety of new phrasings that rework the sentence structures and wording while preserving the core meaning. It is also a game-changer for assisting language learners. Teachers can paraphrase student writing to demonstrate more articulate ways of conveying their ideas using new vocabulary and grammar structures. This helps students grasp more varied modes of expression.