A new Apple mobile app from a startup developed out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology grades most homework, quizzes and tests on the spot, giving students the results almost instantaneously and giving teachers time to do what they're supposed to do — teach.
The Gradeable app integrates with the freestanding Gradeable Inbox, which can be placed anywhere in the classroom to allow students to submit their work, which is scanned and uploaded.
"If we can score it automatically, we will," Parul Singh, the company's founder and CEO, said yesterday. "If it's more in-depth, teachers can review it and grade it more quickly than they normally would by looking at all of the answers for each question one at a time and creating a comment bank to save their remarks about mistakes that are the same. Teachers should be able to go over to their iPad 10 minutes later and see exactly which areas they need to re-teach."
Gradeable began piloting the system last fall in New York City schools. But Singh began building Gradeable in 2012, while she was a student at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Since then, she and members of her team, which now includes six full-time and six part-time employees, have spent about 400 hours with 100 teachers, beginning in Massachusetts schools. What the team found was that many teachers spent as much as a third of their time just grading papers.
"The best thing about Gradeable is that it automatically grades, so that I don't have to do that. But it also gives me data," said Colin Turner, a reading teacher at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School. "I can actually click and look to see how my students did on each question and then use that data the next class."
Current Gradeable users can download the free app in the iTunes App Store. New users can sign up for a free trial at www.Gradeable.com. After the trial, a subscription to the software costs $7 per month, and the Gradeable Inbox costs a one-time fee of $35.
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