Can AI Replace Teachers To Grade Student Essays? A Lesson From US Schools

In countries like the US, artificial intelligence is already being used at a large scale to evaluate student essays, saving educational institutes money and time. According to reports, at least 21 states in America have deployed some type of automated scoring, from middle school to college level. Students are being graded on their essays using such AI systems designed by different vendors for highly important tests like the Graduate Record Examinations (GRE). While educators in the US say they are not going back to using human teachers for essay grading, it has received major backlash from parents particularly those from state school systems. But, it's not all great when it comes to automated grading.