Hello GPT! Goodbye home examination? An exploratory study of AI chatbots impact on university teachers' assessment practices

Farazouli, AlexandraStockholms universitet,Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik (författare)

AI chatbots have recently fuelled debate regarding education practices in higher education institutions worldwide. Focusing on Generative AI and ChatGPT in particular, our study examines how AI chatbots impact university teachers' assessment practices, exploring teachers' perceptions about how ChatGPT performs in response to home examination prompts in undergraduate contexts. University teachers (n = 24) from four different departments in humanities and social sciences participated in Turing Test-inspired experiments, where they blindly assessed student and ChatGPT-written responses to home examination questions. Additionally, we conducted semi-structured interviews in focus groups with the same teachers examining their reflections about the quality of the texts they assessed. Regarding chatbot-generated texts, we found a passing rate range across the cohort (37.5 - 85.7%) and a chatbot-written suspicion range (14-23%). Regarding the student-written texts, we identified patterns of downgrading, suggesting that teachers were more critical when grading student-written texts. Drawing on post-phenomenology and mediation theory, we discuss AI chatbots as a potentially disruptive technology in higher education practices.

Cerratto-Pargman, Teresa,1968-Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap(Swepub:su)tcerr (författare)
Bolander Laksov, Klara,1973-Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik(Swepub:su)kbola (författare)
McGrath, Cormac,1973-Stockholms universitet,Institutionen för pedagogik och didaktik(Swepub:su)comc8918 (författare)
Stockholms universitetInstitutionen för pedagogik och didaktik (creator_code:org_t)

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