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Can AI replace teachers?

Date19 December 2024

Can AI replace teachers in grading and feedback provision?

Research by Arnaud Chevalier, Jakub Orzech and Petar Stankov using a randomised controlled trial (RCT) show that undergraduate students receiving feedback from ChatGPT 4 perform as well in subsequent assessments than their peers in the control group who always received human feedback. Separately, ChatGPT grades and ranks students significantly differently from a teacher. Worryingly, the same assessment receives largely different grades when marked repeatedly by ChatGPT. Overall, while the newest LLM helps learning as well as a teacher, its ability to grade student work is still inferior.

Read the full paper at:

https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/17511/man-vs-machine-can-ai-grade-and-give-feedback-like-a-human

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