EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

That’s where artificial intelligence–powered teaching assistants might come in handy. After one year of using Happy Numbers, an AI-assisted teaching assistant, nearly all the students improved their scores to a 35. I am amazed at the independent success my students are achieving with each task.” . by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Students may feel relief as they hand in an exam, but the moment marks the beginning of stress and anxiety for instructors and teaching assistants, who may need to grade hundreds of tests in a short time. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Stanley Stepanic: When I first came to UVA in 2005 to study for my master’s and my PhD, I was a teaching assistant to the course and was mentored by Professor Jan Perkowski. I can do 30 exams in 15 minutes, which used to take me three days. EdSurge: Can you give us a little background on the history of the Dracula course?

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