AI for Educators Daily with Dan Fitzpatrick
AI for Educators Daily with Dan Fitzpatrick
Dan Fitzpatrick, The AI Educator
Can AI accurately grade student essays?
11 minutes Posted May 28, 2026 at 1:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail Find out more Highlights * A University of Cambridge study found that top AI models like Claude and ChatGPT matched human degree classifications only about 50% of the time when grading university essays. * AI consistently undervalued top-tier work and overvalued lowest-ranked essays, exhibiting a "central tendency bias" by assigning middling marks to most submissions. * AI systems were overly sensitive to linguistic features like essay length, vocabulary variation, and...