Bror's Blog

Teething troubles for tech-based test grading?

A recent study by Shermis et al looking at how a number of automated essay scoring (AES) systems fare compared with human raters has generated a bit of press about advances in automated test scoring and the implications.  Not all that press is favorable – what should we all be doing, then?

Crossing the street - can start-ups and researchers connect?

Just coming back from both the main annual American Education Research Association (AERA) meeting in Vancouver and from the Education Innovation Summit in Scottsdale Arizona (EIS).  Curiously, the two meetings were scheduled to overlap, which reflects, perhaps, how little the world of learning research (as exemplified in AERA) and education technology investment (as exemplified in EIS) overlap.  Yet there’s much to gain from both these worlds – and perhaps even more to gain by a conscious juxtaposition.