evaluation

Two rockets are parallel in front of an image of the earth. The text reads "Long Ago, Far Away." This is the cover of Amazing Stories, September 1959.

Robots Marking Robots: The AI Arms Race

ByBrenna Reading Time: 7 minutes

Hello Detox readers, and greetings from deep within my plague house. As most parents of young children will confirm, everything is a virus and the children are always unwell; my little germ factory came home early from school on Tuesday and hasn’t been back since. My thoughts are with anyone who is also living in…

A gun protrudes from the moon and shoots down a space craft. This is the cover of Amazing Stories, October 1959.

Whose Evaluation Is It, Anyway?: Outsourcing Teacherly Judgement

ByBrenna Reading Time: 8 minutes

An unpopular thing about me is I always basically enjoyed marking. Like, not the grading part — I always struggled with numerating the denominator and I just don’t believe there’s a meaningful difference between a B- essay and a C+ one in the honest-to-goodness real world — but the marking part? Entering into discourse with…