Is AI Grading a Good Idea? Not If It Damages the Teacher-Student Relationship
In this video, Dr. Justin Baeder discusses whether AI grading tools help or hurt by inserting technology between teachers and students.
Key Takeaways
- Grading is relational - When a teacher grades student work, it communicates care and attention; AI grading removes that connection
- Efficiency isn't everything - Saving time on grading isn't worth it if students feel their work doesn't matter to their teacher
- Use AI carefully - AI can assist with grading logistics, but the feedback students receive should come from their teacher
Transcript
is AI grading a good idea?
I think there's a lot of potential here, but I think some of the early steps have been missteps.
I think we've gotten some things wrong with AI grading.
And especially when there is a lot of opportunity to provide feedback to students, if students are going to have the opportunity to revise their work, the kind of feedback that the teacher has to give on that first draft or you know whatever stage we're at on the assignment that is very labor intensive and that means it's a good opportunity for ai to potentially help with the workload where i think we've gotten this wrong is where the ai seems to take the teacher out of it completely in a way that breaks the relationship between the teacher and the student, right?
And a lot of people have told me, or I've seen different stories online of people who got feedback that was like clearly from an AI, clearly from the computer, and it was given to the teacher and then passed on to the student without really any teacher involvement.
And I feel like that just feels wrong to the student because the relationship is supposed to be between the teacher and the student, and the AI is supposed to be a tool that doesn't replace that relationship.
So I think we've gotten something wrong here.
Let me know what you think about this because I think, again, there is real potential here for AI grading and feedback and input to improve student work like i think the input can be really good the analysis can be really good and this is so labor intensive for teachers you know if you have 150 students and they've all written a rough draft of something you know that's a lot of work to provide that feedback it's also very high leverage and i think ai can help But I think we have to get this right.
We have to not damage the relationship between the teacher and the student.
And I think one thing that means is that the feedback has to come from the person.
It has to pass through the person so that the teacher can exercise professional judgment, the teacher can enhance the relationship and not get out of that relationship and make it a relationship between a student and an AI.
Because I just think that fundamentally undermines what we're trying to do in education.
But let me know what you think about this.
Are you using AI?
in grading what is working, what is not working.
Let me know.