The wife of my husband’s bestie is a grade school teacher and she’s told me that she uses AI to grade her students’ work. That kind of bothered me. When I was teaching I could never use AI to grade my students’ essays because I always liked to see if there was improvement from one essay to the next.
However, I can see the appeal of using AI for grading because it takes such a long time to read and give feedback with a typical five paragraph essay that my AP students would find in their AP test. I was an underemployed/underpaid full-time teacher, and it took a week to grade 40 essays. I also felt enormous responsibility to make sure that they understood why they received 3 vs a 4 or 5 on an essay, and what they could do to improve.
