The Marking Pile Never Gets Smaller. Here's How to Change That - Without Cutting Corners.

Grading isn't just time-consuming - it's structurally different from every other part of teaching. It's isolated. It never ends. It carries real stakes under severe time pressure. And research consistently shows it as the single largest contributor to teacher burnout, eating the evenings and weekends that should belong to your own life.

This book changes that - not by lowering your standards, but by collapsing the bottleneck that eats the most time: turning a blank rubric, a blank feedback box, or a blank quiz into a strong first draft in seconds.

AI for Teachers: Assessment and Feedback is Book 3 in the complete AI for Teachers series. It takes you deep into the single category of teacher workload research consistently identifies as the most burnout-associated of all.What You Will Learn: Exactly which AI tools are built for assessment - Gradescope, Brisk Teaching, and Turnitin Draft Coach - and how to combine them for consistent, efficient marking that still depends on your genuine professional judgmentHow to build genuinely well-constructed, properly graded rubrics in minutes, with a verification process that catches the common construction mistakes that undermine fair markingHow to generate personalised, actionable written feedback at real classroom scale - using a structured "personalisation pass" that prevents AI-assisted feedback from ever becoming generic or interchangeableHow to make formative assessment - quick checks, exit tickets, diagnostic quizzes - a genuinely sustainable daily habit instead of an aspiration abandoned under time pressureHow to use AI to spot patterns across your marking that reveal struggling students earlier than informal observation alone typically catches themAn honest, evidence-based look at AI detection tools - including a serious equity risk for multilingual students that most guidance ignores entirelyHow to redesign assessments so AI misuse matters less, and how to teach students, directly and without fear-based prohibition, what honest AI use actually looks likeThis Book Is For You If: Marking and feedback are the single biggest drain on your evenings and weekendsYou want feedback that is genuinely personalised, not generic AI output with a student's name attachedYou believe in formative assessment but rarely have time to do it as often as you know you shouldYou're worried about AI-assisted cheating but uneasy about relying on detection tools you suspect aren't reliableYou want a complete, honest, evidence-based system - not hype, and not fear

No technical background required. Built specifically for European classrooms, with direct guidance relevant to Germany, France, Italy, and Portugal throughout.

The pile doesn't have to win. This book hands you a complete, sustainable system to finally change that.