In-person final exams were canceled for thousands of students this spring, so computers stepped in — to disastrous effect. By Meredith Broussard Ms. Broussard is an artificial intelligence researcher ...
Recently, a grading fiasco in the United Kingdom left 40% of students with a worse grade than they had anticipated receiving, sparking outrage and even legal action. However, it was not the teacher ...
London has seen many protests in its 2,000 years, but a chant that rang out in front of the Department for Education this past Sunday was likely a first. “Fuck the algorithm,” yelled a crowd of ...
is a reporter with five years of experience covering consumer tech releases, EU tech policy, online platforms, and mechanical keyboards. Instead, students will receive grades based on their teachers’ ...
A Southern California seventh grader and his mother have tricked an online learning platform into giving him 100% grades. According to a Tuesday report in The Verge, 12-year-old Lazare Simmons had ...
This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. But this year, it’s very different. The coronavirus pandemic means exams were canceled and replaced with teacher assessments and algorithms. It has created ...
A student is threatening to sue the UK government over an algorithm used to determine the final grades of school leavers in the absence of formal examinations during the pandemic. Curtis Parfitt-Ford, ...
The uproar over an algorithm that lowered the grades of 40 percent of students is a sign of battles to come regarding the use of technology in public services. By Adam Satariano LONDON — Even after a ...
Taking exams is never easy, but it seems that figuring out results with an algorithm is far more difficult. The UK government have learnt the hard and humiliating way that a badly constructed ...
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of school-leaving children in Britain were left distraught Thursday after being handed lower-than-expected grades, with many questioning how the results were calculated after ...
Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reviewer covering laptops and other gadgets. Monica was a writer for Tom’s Guide and Business ...
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