What policies or guidelines on using AI are in place at your institution for grading student work by the faculty? Specifically:
- Do you have policies about using AI to grade student work?
- If your institution doesn’t allow AI grading.
- If there are types of grading where it may be ok, such as grammar and spelling, but not for actual comments.
- Whether or not some people may believe some percentage of AI-written comments is ok when used with faculty comments.
GPT, short for Generative Pre-trained Transformer, is a series of advanced AI models created by OpenAI, designed to produce human-like text and content with remarkable fluency and coherence. If you are not familiar with a GPT, it is a specialized ChatGPT AI tool I created in my account that has been “infused” with specifications to look for certain things. The instructions include the assignment description, a list of typical feedback, an exemplary paper to use as a reference, and instructions not to allow re-writing through the GPT.
In the online courses that I teach, I do not use AI to grade student’s work, but I provide them with an AI-based GPT that they can use to “pre-flight” their draft papers before they submit them. The GPT does not grade their work – it is designed to indicate to students where their work needs attention, such as fulfilling the assignment requirements and covering all the topics.
Students are not required to use the Pre-Flight Evaluators, and I have provided a separate page that explains what the GPT does and what the results mean/don’t mean. The goal is to provide “feedback before feedback” so that it also reduces remediation effort by the instructor.
I have attached an anonymized sample paper for you to try it yourself. Go to my Pre-Flight GPT, upload it, and review the results. AI has the potential to enhance feedback in various ways, though it remains in an experimental stage.
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COM 680 Sample 4.docx 33.35 kB
COM 680 Option 1 Pre-flight Evaluator
Steve Covello
Senior Instructional Designer
Senior Adjunct Online Faculty
University of New Hampshire
(603) 513-1346
