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How accurate is AI marking? What our first TeachEdge study found
We tested TeachEdge on 67 A-Level Economics answers. Explore the results, the comparison with human marking research and what the findings mean for teachers.
The Part of the AI Marking Debate We Keep Missing
The AI marking debate is often framed as a choice between slow but personal human feedback and fast but impersonal automation. The more useful model is different: AI drafts first, and the teacher reviews, adjusts and approves what the student actually sees.
Differentiation without rewriting everything: introducing the Scaffolding Assistant
Create Low, Low+, Medium and High support versions of the same exam question in minutes — with scaffolds aligned to your marking criteria, not generic 'helpful' prompts.
Why Essay Marks Are Less Certain Than We Pretend
Reflecting on my experience as a teacher and edtech founder, this essay explores why essay marking is noisier than we like to admit — and why the most valuable part of judgement is often the feedback, not the mark.
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Whole-class feedback: spotting gaps and planning what to teach next
A practical whole-class feedback guide with a Psychology example, a planning template and ways to turn assessment evidence into focused follow-up teaching.
Key Stage 3 comes to TeachEdge: feedback shaped around your teaching
Key Stage 3 is now available in Quick Mark and Class Marking, with feedback shaped by each teacher's subject, class and learning priorities.
What Makes TeachEdge Different from Other AI Marking Tools?
Compare TeachEdge’s approach to AI marking: structured student feedback, teacher review, class insights and follow-up for KS3, GCSE and A Level.
AI feedback for students: clear next steps they can act on
See how AI feedback can give students clear, actionable next steps, with a History example, follow-up activities and teacher review in TeachEdge.
How to Use Bulk Marking for Scanned Exam Scripts
A practical guide to using Teach Edge Bulk Marking for a batch of scanned or photographed student answers. This guide explains how to prepare scripts, upload them, group pages and review the results.
We Have Known for Decades That Tutoring Works. The Question Was Always Scale.
For decades, schools have known that one-to-one tutoring can be transformative. The real issue was never whether it worked, but how to bring more of that personalised support into ordinary classrooms at scale.
AI Didn't Save Me Any Time. And That Was the Point
AI can save teachers time. But its more interesting value may be elsewhere. Sometimes the real benefit is helping you think more clearly about why students are getting stuck, and how to teach something better.
Claude CoWork: You've Been Chatting With AI. Here's What Happens When It Can Actually Do Things
Anthropic's Cowork moves AI beyond the chat box and into real multi-step work. Here's what that looks like for teachers, where it could help, and where caution still matters.
The Map Has Changed. Are We Still Teaching Students to Read the Old One?
As AI shifts research from navigation to conversation, the challenge for schools is no longer just teaching students to evaluate sources. It is teaching them to notice framing, ask better questions and recognise what a conversational interface may be leaving out.
What students actually think about AI marking and feedback
King's School, Chester ran an independent student voice survey on TeachEdge after around 18 months of use. Here's what 148 students said about clarity, speed, progress, and trust in marking.
AI Doesn't Automatically Reduce Your Workload. It Changes It.
A recent Harvard Business Review piece found that when people adopt generative AI, workload often intensifies rather than falls. For teachers, that is a warning worth hearing early, before AI quietly turns every spare minute into more tasks.
Stop Trying to Catch Them: Why AI Detection is a Dead End for UK Secondary Schools
AI detection tools cannot reliably prove whether a GCSE or A Level student used generative AI. Schools will get further by modelling good AI use and protecting supervised writing time.