Machines have a long-demonstrated ability to find statistical relationships between qualities of texts and surface-level linguistic indicators of writing. More recently, unlocked by artificial intelligence, the potential of using machines to identify content-related writing trait criteria has been uncovered. This development is significant,…

Ensuring science for all in the classroom requires that all students are afforded ways to grasp key science and engineering practices; however, we know that the practice of "obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information" can be a challenging task for children with high incidence disabilities (NGSS Lead States 2013, p. 15).…

Most teachers spend more time "looking" at student work outside of class than anything else they do. As a teacher, the author relates spending many evenings and weekends visually scanning the work of his students. Although he knew that the students' effort deserved his careful attention, the volume of homework, essays, tests, and research papers…