Weekly Roundup: Can AI grade like a professor?

Two new studies find LLMs can grade short-answer assessments in medical education with high agreement to human examiners, offering potential efficiency gains but highlighting the need for oversight.

Many of us are currently on annual leave and we will soon return to work to prepare for the return of our students. This often means that assessment marking is not yet on our minds. Perhaps now I’ve reminded you of it you’re already experiencing palpitations?

We are all familiar with the growing pressures: rising student numbers, constrained faculty time…