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8 Tips on Why Educators Should Avoid Using AI Apps to Help with Assessment of Student Learning

Intellectual Property A student’s work is their intellectual property. Unless you have permission to use it outside of class, then avoid doing so.

Privacy A student’s personal data, including their name, ID number and other details should never be uploaded to an external app without consent.

Data security Content uploaded to an AI tool may be added to its database and used to train the tool.

Bias AI apps are known to be biased. Feedback generated by an AI app can be biased, unfair, and even racist. To learn more check out this article published in Nature.

Lack of context An AI app does not know your student like you do. It can provide generic feedback but may not help to scaffold a student’s learning.

Impersonal AI apps can provide generic feedback, but as an educator, you can personalize feedback to help the student grow.

Academic Integrity Educators model ethical behaviour, this includes transparent and fair assessment. If you are using tech tools to assess student learning, it is important to be transparent about it. In this post, I write more about how and why deceptive and covert assessment tactics are unacceptable.

Your Employee Responsibilities If your job description includes assessing student work , you may be violating your employment contract if you offload assessment to an AI app