As a teacher, it’s essential to effectively assess your students’ knowledge. What do they know? Where do they need to improve? In Designing Effective Instruction, Gary Morrison, Steven Ross, and Jerrold Kemp discuss the various “tests” available to evaluate different types of knowledge, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. The key is to match [...]

Instructors who stumble upon SAGrader for the first time are understandably skeptical that it can evaluate anything beyond keyword mentions. Usually, I hear something like: “Sure, I believe that SAGrader can score specific content…but I don’t just want my students to parrot the textbook back to me. I don’t see how a machine can grade [...]