[1][2][3] He is a critic of automated essay scoring (AES),[4][5] and influenced the College Board's decision to terminate the Writing Section of the SAT.

[13] In 2014, Perelman collaborated with students at MIT and Harvard to develop BABEL, the "Basic Automatic B.S.

The nonsense essays generated by BABEL are claimed to perform well when graded by AES systems.

"[14] Perelman's work is cited by the NCTE in their Position Statement on Machine Scoring, which expresses similar concerns about the limitations of AES: Computer scoring systems can be "gamed" because they are poor at working with human language, further weakening the validity of their assessments and separating students not on the basis of writing ability but on whether they know and can use machine-tricking strategies.

[15] During 2017-2018, Perelman was commissioned by the New South Wales Teachers Federation to write three reports[16][17][18] to assist in efforts to reform Australia's national primary and secondary school assessments, the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN).