Gradeable
https://www.gradeable.com
Elevator Pitch:
Take the pain out of grading and personalize instruction.
Founders:
Parul Singh
Dante Cassanego
Key ideas:
Teachers spend one-third of their time grading. We aim to change that. We know that less time on grading means more time with students.
An app for teachers to grade student papers and track the results.
Gradeable is a ground-breaking mobile education assistant. We empower teachers with time and insight and enable practices that increase test scores by as much as 29%.
Our solution provides an easy workflow for scanning assessments with a mobile phone. By increasing available data, we deliver actionable recommendations for improving comprehension and powerful analytics to measure progress against standards-based goals.
Gradeable is an essential personalized data coach for educators, filling a pressing need for targeted, insightful feedback on learning.
Worth reading/watching:
MIT Sloan alumni, students win Startup Showdown at MIT Venture Capital Conference (MIT, 2012)
MIT Ideas Global Challenge (2012)