Tag: grading
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Weekly digest 26
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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AI is highlighting the limited value of our assessments
We’re now at the stage where AI can generate decent essays and a different AI system can do a respectable job in marking them. The students and lecturers can then __retire to the cafe and get on with discussing the interesting stuff. Martin Weller (2022). 25+ Years of Ed Tech: 2022 – AI Generated Content.…
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In Beta podcast: Assessment and learning
http://inbetaphysio.com/2023/06/29/31-assessment-and-learning/ In this conversation, Ben and I had discuss the assessment process, linking it to broader themes of learning, curriculum design, and student experience. We talk about the centralisation of assessment and explore the tensions between institutional control and the autonomy of teachers. We discuss student satisfaction and the influence of risk aversion in educational…
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Link: I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop
Via Dave Nicholls’ Paradoxa Substack. Mastroianni, A. (2022, December 13). I wanted to be a teacher but they made me a cop. https://www.experimental-history.com/p/i-wanted-to-be-a-teacher-but-they “I have a second job, which is evaluation, or gatekeeping, or, most specifically, point-guarding. I’m supposed to award “points” based on what students do in my class. Students try to acquire as…
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Comment: AI applications taking over professional tasks
Among the many, many tasks required of grade school teachers is that of gauging each student’s reading level, usually by a time-consuming and high-pressure one-on-one examination. Microsoft’s new Reading Progress application takes some of the load off the teacher’s shoulders, allowing kids to do their reading at home and using natural language understanding to help…
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Why I think that AI-based grading in education is inevitable.
A few days ago I commented on an article that discusses the introduction of AI into education and why teachers shouldn’t worry about it. I also said that AI for grading was inevitable because it would be cheaper, and more reliable, fair and valid than human beings. I got some pushback from Ben on Twitter…
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Comment: Teachers, the Robots Are Coming. But That’s Not a Bad Thing.
…that’s exactly why educators should not be putting their heads in the sand and hoping they never get replaced by an AI-powered robot. They need to play a big role in the development of these technologies so that whatever is produced is ethical and unbiased, improves student learning, and helps teachers spend more time inspiring…
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We Need Transparency in Algorithms, But Too Much Can Backfire
The students had also been asked what grade they thought they would get, and it turned out that levels of trust in those students whose actual grades hit or exceeded that estimate were unaffected by transparency. But people whose expectations were violated – students who received lower scores than they expected – trusted the algorithm…
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Public posting of marks
My university has a policy where the marks for each assessment task are posted – anonymously – on the departmental notice board. I think it goes back to a time when students were not automatically notified by email and individual notifications of grades would have been too time consuming. Now that our students get their…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2012-04-16
I just finished writing the first draft of the “Small Group Learning” article, and sent it to the designer for… http://t.co/YX4kX8AE # Badges Go To Graduate School http://t.co/MONZHIPt # Picking fresh oreganum https://t.co/U5y3Oded # A Digital Revolution for Studying Human Anatomy | Wired Science | http://t.co/qlXkciBT http://t.co/c2AXNpoh # How to lecture in a PBL classroom…
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Posted to Diigo 05/25/2010
1027. No Grading, More Learning « Tomorrow’s Professor Blog Turn over grading to the students in the course “It was spectacular, far exceeding my expectations,” she said. “It would take a lot to get me back to a conventional form of grading ever again.” she found that it inspired students to do more work, and…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-12-14
“Universities 2.0”, from SAIDE Newslettervol.15, no.6 2009 http://bit.ly/8Eg1L1 # Another Hyper Definition Image of Cape Town | – http://bit.ly/72Ro4G # @dreamingspires didn’t use those extensions much, but occasionally miss others. Chrome extensions being released often though in reply to dreamingspires # @dreamingspires agreed, have pretty much switched to chromium purely because of speed, hardly use…