The research identifies a growing dependency on data-based assessment and performance tracking that redefines educational accountability. What was once a dialogue between teacher and student is ...

The U.K. government is facing a growing row over final-year school grades after thousands of pupils in England were downgraded by an algorithm. Schools, educational-equality bodies and opposition ...

Wireless networks and the Internet of Things (IoT) are used for monitoring, data collection and analysis in numerous research and applied fields, such as autonomous driving, interconnection of medical ...

NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Colorado high school student Isabel Castaneda checked her final grades for the International Baccalaureate program in July, she was shocked. Despite being ...

All schools will be set individual targets for attendance, powered by AI, in a bid to tackle the growing classroom absence ...

One sector where the pandemic has accelerated the pace of digitalization is education, although as with so many others, this has not always been done as efficiently as might be hoped. Almost overnight ...

Algorithms used by social media to “bombard” young people with content ranging from eating disorders to pornography are causing “profound damage” and may be fuelling rising anxiety rates among ...

Boris Johnson has blamed a "mutant algorithm" for the A-level results fiasco before sacking the most senior official at the Department for Education. Jonathan Slater will stand down as permanent ...

An algorithm will not be used to predict student grades this summer, an exam chief has said. All GCSE, AS and A-level tests have again been cancelled this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. Schools ...

Boris Johnson has blamed a "mutant algorithm" for the A-level results fiasco before sacking the most senior official at the Department for Education. Jonathan Slater will stand down as permanent ...