Re:Why Do Teachers Quit?
by JamieLewis on Monday October 21, 2013 @01:22AM
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I pulled the example from the air to make a point, but you are correct, the last 20% is 80% of the work...
See the comment by aaron695 who made a very good point about feedback.
I wonder though if there is some easy fruit at the bottom of the tree i.e. elementary school - where I gather grading is probably a lower burden and easier to formalise - although I am probably again greatly understating the problem.
This is the problem, they can't. They can do the 80% to make it understandable but the last 20% is always the hard bit.
It'll happen one day, but it might be up there with the singularity for when it's viable. Fully understanding a paper to grade might equal AI intelligence on par with humans.
Not to say perhaps a quick hack, like a 80% grader that the teachers quickly look over to check and correct might be a game changer.