The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education notified nearly 200 school districts that at least one of their students was affected by an AI grading glitch that resulted in hundreds of essays being scored incorrectly on the MCAS exams.

The NBC10 Investigators obtained the list of 192 school districts from a public records request to DESE.

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As we first reported last month , the technology incorrectly graded about 1,400 essays, which were later rescored after the error was detected and the state’s testing contractor performed a review. The use of artificial intelligence to grade MCAS exams resulted in some errors across Massachusetts, so humans had to step in to make sure that student essays rec

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