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Ask HN: Would banning manual grading result in more people wanting to teach?
Automated grading can even provide personalized feedback nowadays.
- not_your_vase 2y agoPaying teachers better would result in more people wanting to teach. I have yet to hear anyone saying "oh, I really want to be a teacher, but that constant grading would drive me nuts..."
- jfengel 2y agoTeachers definitely do not enjoy grading. I don't know if it keeps anybody out of the profession, but it's definitely a complaint once they're in it. Grading adds hours to the teacher's work day. School might be in session for only 6 or 7 hours, but between lesson planning and grading, teacher days are often 10-12 hours long. I don't know if they'd be any happier turning the grading over to a computer. But a complete redesign of education that called for a lot less grading of homework and tests... a lot of teachers might enjoy their jobs a lot more, and make the profession more attractive.
- zero-sharp 2y agoManual grading for what? For math? For writing? I'm sure a machine can do pretty well at providing personalized feedback in some topics & areas of math education. It would probably be horrendous in others. Education isn't a technology problem.
- Suppafly 2y ago>Ask HN: Would banning manual grading result in more people wanting to teach? No, that's silly.
- JohnFen 2y agoAccording to family members who teach, grading is not a fun activity. However, it's far from the top of the list of discouraging things about the job. I'm also far from confident that automation would be any good at it, depending on the subject.