This reminds me of a discussion I had with a younger sibling (10+ years) about high school homework. I was shocked to hear from him and our parents how much ho

This reminds me of a discussion I had with a younger sibling (10+ years) about high school homework. I was shocked to hear from him and our parents how much homework he was assigned compared to myself at his age, and I couldn't help but wonder whether the ease with which this homework was assigned played a role. In 'my day' homework involved handing in paperwork, which the teacher took home to grade over the weekend, along with that of 30+ fellow students. In 'his day' homework involved filling in a web form within some shitty e-learning environment, or at worst uploading a document somewhere, which the teacher could either grade automatically in the former cases, or skim through on their laptop in the latter case. Discussions surrounding this increase in homework often center around higher-level sociological/psychological factors, but I wonder how much of a role ease played in all this: if you can grade 30+ tests with a click of a button, perhaps it leads to more testing?