Stadio denies that it is using AI to mark student papers

[Luis]

Stadio denies that it is using AI to mark student papers

South African private tertiary institution Stadio disputed claims that it started using artificial intelligence (AI) to mark students' papers.

A MyBroadband reader who previously received payment for regularly assisting with the marking of Stadio students' papers recently alleged that Stadio had reduced its human marking workloads with AI.

 

[airborne]

Slimy bastards.

 

[Apogee]

The complainant was obviously sour that he is getting less work.

Still don't see that the use of AI in this instance is an infraction - as long as it is accurate and fair - unless we are now trying to project that the use of AI in general is a bad thing?

 

[The_MAC]

If varsities have been using "AI" to detect plagiarism for a very long time, it's not much of a stretch to use it to mark..

 

[Brian_G]

Until hallucinations are under control, if ever, this is BS. Nothing can be relied on anymore.

 

[ebendl]

Honestly, I don't see a problem with using AI for this, as long as there's a human-in-the-loop. E.g. review the output of the AI. Have a conservative AI that knows when to ask for help.

I'm married to a maths teacher. Marking is the single-most-boring and time-consuming thing that a teacher can do. Yes, there's an element of "teaching" to marking papers -- you get to see where students are failing, you get to see where you need to focus attention, you get to "know the kid" better.

But you can do all of these things without having to review 100s of papers if you have good analytics and care about the data. And hey, you as the teacher (or lecturer, in this case) can use the time better to actually prep better lessons, or tutor kids who struggle, or investigating alternative ways of teaching a concept.

Or actually spend the time with your own family. Teachers (the good ones) work a TON of unpaid overtime - much of it marking papers.

I've honestly considered building AI systems to help my wife mark papers. If it is accurate and gives you good feedback - what's the problem? If it is able to interpret a written answer sheet rather than those stupid horrible multiple-choice orange-colour-in-the-dot answer sheets, then everybody wins? Those were machine-graded papers too - just a horrible format.

Yeah, I'm sorry for the MyBroadband reader who lost part-time work marking papers, but such is the nature of AI (or even technological advancement) - I mean, it is something that I'm facing in my future too.