If one of my professors was using AI to evaluate my work, I would feel as though they do not care at all about their class. Because to me, using AI to grade something takes no effort. So why should I have to put in the effort to hand in assignments. I also feel the same way about teachers using AI to make worksheets, or assignments. Because if they couldn’t even be bothered to come up with their own questions then why should I be bothered to come up with an answer. I do understand that professors are very busy people, but so are students. Therefore, if the professors don’t want students using AI on assignments then they shouldn’t use it either.
I understand why professors would use an AI system to see if their students used AI to complete an essay or an assignment. When doing this the professor is assuming that every student used AI to complete their work. In reality, that may not be true. I have already seen news articles of students given a 0 on an assignment because a professor said they used AI to complete the assignment, when the student did that assignment with no help from AI. I think if professors want to do this, the systems that they are putting the work in need to be more reliable, or professors should find another way to make sure students are actually using their words, and not text taken from AI.
I feel as though if my professor using ai to grade is the same as students using ai to do their work for them. Using something like a scantron for multiple choice or an answer sheet for a math worksheet is fine, but using ai to grade multiple choice is not doing their job. If a professor is unable to grade them things can go overlooked or unnoticed. If I wrote an amazing essay on a book, but completley misunderstood the ideas of the book, ai would grade it as correct, even though it does not anwser the prompt as ai does not have the context surrounding the essay. Also ai can flag things as ai even when they are not. It can also grade things wrong due to the persons personal style of writing. Another reason is ai does not give half credit or productive feedback. Overall I would be extremely upset about it.
I would feel incredibly frustrated if a professor used AI to grade my work. AI has been shown to be incredibly unreliable, and if a professor ever used AI to grade my work, I would make a formal complaint. I do not consent to my work being fed into generative AI, and if a professor says I cannot use AI for their class, they should not be feeding my work into AI. A professor is hired and paid by the university to teach students, and evaluating work is part of that. Having AI do it for them makes no sense to me.
Journal #20
Madison Robinson
AI Usage
Professors using AI to evaluate student work brings many different complications and possible issues. Professors using AI to evaluate students work takes away from getting to know the students writing or learning styles and develop a relationship with them on a personal level. By just using the grade or evaluation from AI, the professors only see the extreme good or bad without seeing the areas where the student is struggling and may need extra support. If I knew that my professors were using AI and not actually reading and grading the work I have done, I would be worried about not getting an accurate grade or receiving helpful feedback. It is possible that AI could skew their criteria from person to person, leading to inaccurate evaluation of the work and negatively affecting the students. I have also heard of students having their work put into an AI detector and it comes back as positive, even though it is their original work. This is stressful for students, especially if they are seriously accused of something that they did not do. To me, it feels like grading is a part of the teaching process, which is the job of professors Without this piece of their job, it feels less like teaching and more like just presenting information to people.
I think I would have some concerns if my professors started using AI to evaluate my work. To start, I don’t think we’re at a point with AI where it can be completely relied upon to do everything correctly. If my professors started using AI to evaluate my work, then I feel there would be a great possibility that the assessment would not be totally accurate. Along with this, I would feel a little upset because I think that using AI to evaluate another person’s work takes away every personal aspect, which I feel is an important factor in the education process. I might understand if AI was used to grade something that was a single response only, but when work is open-response, it’s not always a clear matter of if the answer is “right” or “wrong”; Instead, it should be graded based on the effort and depth of understanding shown. In cases like this, I think that AI would be too focused on grading based on whether something was correct or incorrect, rather than looking at a person’s work entirely, seeing the individuality and uniqueness that does not always fit neatly into the box of “correctness”. Lastly, I think using AI to grade work would take away the teacher’s role of educating their students. It’s one thing if AI is used to mark whether a multiple choice answer is right or wrong, but in terms of feedback, I feel it is something that cannot be replaced with AI. Using AI to grade may eliminate human bias, but I would also argue that it would take away many other irreplaceable human qualities, such as personal communication and connection, that are essential when it comes to learning.
I would prefer that my professors avoid using AI to evaluate my work, or at least minimize their use of it. While I can see and understand the benefits of using it to evaluate work, such as saving time or seeing things they wouldn’t have previously seen, I still think that those benefits do not outweigh the cost. Using AI is harmful to the environment, that’s unavoidable. AI factories use a lot of precious resources, such as land and water. These factories need land to build on, contributing to deforestation, and they need water to cool down the servers that AI uses. While that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the environmental impact, AI also doesn’t, and hopefully never will, and the same “touch” as humans. My professors have the context of what they’ve taught and of the assignment they’ve given me, whereas AI does not. For these reasons, and many more, I would rather my professors not use AI to evaluate my work.
I would not feel great about my professors using AI to grade my work. I think that AI can and is used by students and professors alike as a learning/teaching aid, but just like it is wrong of me to generate a whole essay using AI and submit it I think the same applies for educators using AI to quickly grade assignments without looking at them themselves. I understand when professors use AI to detect plagiarism or other things that are against the grading policies, but to grade the work that I put time into to create by running it through AI is not something that I would particularly support.
I think professors using AI to grade would be a good idea to make grading quicker but it would take away the ability to learn your students through their work. It could be good thing until the AI starts making mistakes with grading which we are already seeing with online tests that are graded on the spot or become too specific and harsh with their grading. It could also take away human error while grading so that may be a benefit. Overall I don’t think it would be the worst Idea to use AI for grading longer more tedious assignments but It could make students feel their works isn’t valued by the professor.
I think if professors were using AI to evaluate my work I would be a bit frustrated. If they do not want us to use AI to complete an assignment then they should follow the same guidelines and not use AI to grade our work. As we have seen, AI can not be completely relied upon so by using it to grade our work, it raises the possibility that it will grade things inaccurately therefore causing my grade to suffer because the professor chose to make it easier for them and not grade things themselves. I would be okay with them grading with AI if I knew they were using AI just to initially grade things then the professor themself is going back through to double check that things were in fact graded properly.
I understand why professors use AI for lesson planning and creating practice problems it’s efficient and can save a lot of time. However, it’s frustrating when it’s obvious that a worksheet wasn’t written by them. Those materials often feel less clear or disconnected from what we’ve actually covered in class, which can make learning more difficult and less engaging.
I wouldn’t want a professor to use AI for grading. AI doesn’t leave room for discussion or empathy that having a real person grading allows for. AI also isn’t developed to the point of being completely reliable yet so mistakes are unavoidable but without a human face communication isn’t as accessible for corrections. A teacher or professor’s role is to teach their students with AI grading assignments there’s no direct feedback on where to improve or even how to.
I feel like it isn’t fair if a professor uses AI to grade or make an assignment because you put the effort into doing the assignment and they should put the effort into making the plans and grading it and not use it basically as a cop out. it doesn’t know your voice like the professor might so it might flag stuff that is just your normal mannerisms or way of thinking and that is not fair, then there is no good feedback that they can give you.
I think that professors should be able to use AI to a certain degree to help them do their work, however I do not think they should use AI to strait up grade every students work without looking at the work themselves. If they did that there could be some student work that was good, or some that was not good, that were graded otherwise. It is not accurate at grading at this point, and I’m not sure if it will ever be the same as a human. Also, there is a comfort that I never realized was there when you have a human grade your work. It makes the grade you get feel more genuine. I would feel better about getting a bad grade from a human than I would from a robot on a big assignment, because if I went and talked with the professor, they would know exactly the problem compared to someone who just let Chat GPT grade all the work and they have no idea what the problem was.
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If one of my professors was using AI to evaluate my work, I would feel as though they do not care at all about their class. Because to me, using AI to grade something takes no effort. So why should I have to put in the effort to hand in assignments. I also feel the same way about teachers using AI to make worksheets, or assignments. Because if they couldn’t even be bothered to come up with their own questions then why should I be bothered to come up with an answer. I do understand that professors are very busy people, but so are students. Therefore, if the professors don’t want students using AI on assignments then they shouldn’t use it either.
I understand why professors would use an AI system to see if their students used AI to complete an essay or an assignment. When doing this the professor is assuming that every student used AI to complete their work. In reality, that may not be true. I have already seen news articles of students given a 0 on an assignment because a professor said they used AI to complete the assignment, when the student did that assignment with no help from AI. I think if professors want to do this, the systems that they are putting the work in need to be more reliable, or professors should find another way to make sure students are actually using their words, and not text taken from AI.
I feel as though if my professor using ai to grade is the same as students using ai to do their work for them. Using something like a scantron for multiple choice or an answer sheet for a math worksheet is fine, but using ai to grade multiple choice is not doing their job. If a professor is unable to grade them things can go overlooked or unnoticed. If I wrote an amazing essay on a book, but completley misunderstood the ideas of the book, ai would grade it as correct, even though it does not anwser the prompt as ai does not have the context surrounding the essay. Also ai can flag things as ai even when they are not. It can also grade things wrong due to the persons personal style of writing. Another reason is ai does not give half credit or productive feedback. Overall I would be extremely upset about it.
I would feel incredibly frustrated if a professor used AI to grade my work. AI has been shown to be incredibly unreliable, and if a professor ever used AI to grade my work, I would make a formal complaint. I do not consent to my work being fed into generative AI, and if a professor says I cannot use AI for their class, they should not be feeding my work into AI. A professor is hired and paid by the university to teach students, and evaluating work is part of that. Having AI do it for them makes no sense to me.
Journal #20
Madison Robinson
AI Usage
Professors using AI to evaluate student work brings many different complications and possible issues. Professors using AI to evaluate students work takes away from getting to know the students writing or learning styles and develop a relationship with them on a personal level. By just using the grade or evaluation from AI, the professors only see the extreme good or bad without seeing the areas where the student is struggling and may need extra support. If I knew that my professors were using AI and not actually reading and grading the work I have done, I would be worried about not getting an accurate grade or receiving helpful feedback. It is possible that AI could skew their criteria from person to person, leading to inaccurate evaluation of the work and negatively affecting the students. I have also heard of students having their work put into an AI detector and it comes back as positive, even though it is their original work. This is stressful for students, especially if they are seriously accused of something that they did not do. To me, it feels like grading is a part of the teaching process, which is the job of professors Without this piece of their job, it feels less like teaching and more like just presenting information to people.
I think I would have some concerns if my professors started using AI to evaluate my work. To start, I don’t think we’re at a point with AI where it can be completely relied upon to do everything correctly. If my professors started using AI to evaluate my work, then I feel there would be a great possibility that the assessment would not be totally accurate. Along with this, I would feel a little upset because I think that using AI to evaluate another person’s work takes away every personal aspect, which I feel is an important factor in the education process. I might understand if AI was used to grade something that was a single response only, but when work is open-response, it’s not always a clear matter of if the answer is “right” or “wrong”; Instead, it should be graded based on the effort and depth of understanding shown. In cases like this, I think that AI would be too focused on grading based on whether something was correct or incorrect, rather than looking at a person’s work entirely, seeing the individuality and uniqueness that does not always fit neatly into the box of “correctness”. Lastly, I think using AI to grade work would take away the teacher’s role of educating their students. It’s one thing if AI is used to mark whether a multiple choice answer is right or wrong, but in terms of feedback, I feel it is something that cannot be replaced with AI. Using AI to grade may eliminate human bias, but I would also argue that it would take away many other irreplaceable human qualities, such as personal communication and connection, that are essential when it comes to learning.
I would prefer that my professors avoid using AI to evaluate my work, or at least minimize their use of it. While I can see and understand the benefits of using it to evaluate work, such as saving time or seeing things they wouldn’t have previously seen, I still think that those benefits do not outweigh the cost. Using AI is harmful to the environment, that’s unavoidable. AI factories use a lot of precious resources, such as land and water. These factories need land to build on, contributing to deforestation, and they need water to cool down the servers that AI uses. While that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the environmental impact, AI also doesn’t, and hopefully never will, and the same “touch” as humans. My professors have the context of what they’ve taught and of the assignment they’ve given me, whereas AI does not. For these reasons, and many more, I would rather my professors not use AI to evaluate my work.
I would not feel great about my professors using AI to grade my work. I think that AI can and is used by students and professors alike as a learning/teaching aid, but just like it is wrong of me to generate a whole essay using AI and submit it I think the same applies for educators using AI to quickly grade assignments without looking at them themselves. I understand when professors use AI to detect plagiarism or other things that are against the grading policies, but to grade the work that I put time into to create by running it through AI is not something that I would particularly support.
I think professors using AI to grade would be a good idea to make grading quicker but it would take away the ability to learn your students through their work. It could be good thing until the AI starts making mistakes with grading which we are already seeing with online tests that are graded on the spot or become too specific and harsh with their grading. It could also take away human error while grading so that may be a benefit. Overall I don’t think it would be the worst Idea to use AI for grading longer more tedious assignments but It could make students feel their works isn’t valued by the professor.
I think if professors were using AI to evaluate my work I would be a bit frustrated. If they do not want us to use AI to complete an assignment then they should follow the same guidelines and not use AI to grade our work. As we have seen, AI can not be completely relied upon so by using it to grade our work, it raises the possibility that it will grade things inaccurately therefore causing my grade to suffer because the professor chose to make it easier for them and not grade things themselves. I would be okay with them grading with AI if I knew they were using AI just to initially grade things then the professor themself is going back through to double check that things were in fact graded properly.
I understand why professors use AI for lesson planning and creating practice problems it’s efficient and can save a lot of time. However, it’s frustrating when it’s obvious that a worksheet wasn’t written by them. Those materials often feel less clear or disconnected from what we’ve actually covered in class, which can make learning more difficult and less engaging.
I wouldn’t want a professor to use AI for grading. AI doesn’t leave room for discussion or empathy that having a real person grading allows for. AI also isn’t developed to the point of being completely reliable yet so mistakes are unavoidable but without a human face communication isn’t as accessible for corrections. A teacher or professor’s role is to teach their students with AI grading assignments there’s no direct feedback on where to improve or even how to.
I feel like it isn’t fair if a professor uses AI to grade or make an assignment because you put the effort into doing the assignment and they should put the effort into making the plans and grading it and not use it basically as a cop out. it doesn’t know your voice like the professor might so it might flag stuff that is just your normal mannerisms or way of thinking and that is not fair, then there is no good feedback that they can give you.
I think that professors should be able to use AI to a certain degree to help them do their work, however I do not think they should use AI to strait up grade every students work without looking at the work themselves. If they did that there could be some student work that was good, or some that was not good, that were graded otherwise. It is not accurate at grading at this point, and I’m not sure if it will ever be the same as a human. Also, there is a comfort that I never realized was there when you have a human grade your work. It makes the grade you get feel more genuine. I would feel better about getting a bad grade from a human than I would from a robot on a big assignment, because if I went and talked with the professor, they would know exactly the problem compared to someone who just let Chat GPT grade all the work and they have no idea what the problem was.