"Discern" Grading Software

After reading about Discern essay grading software, Kristen Hicks muses "Can Software Take Grading Off a Professor’s To Do List? "

Hicks reports that faculty are opposing the introduction of such software even though it will save them work. Of course, if evaluation and feedback could be done as well by a machine as a human, ninety percent of faculty could be retired to join engineers who only use slide rule.

-DD