ChatGPT Consistently Fails (Most Parts of) The Assessment Tasks I Assign My Students. Here’s Why.

"I assign the tasks I do because I want to get a sense of what is going on in my students’ minds. I have, for a long time, felt deeply dissatisfied with generic tasks like essays or lab reports for my ability to infer what students are thinking. It seems there might be something in that." - Article excerpt.

In this article, educator Jason M. Lodge discusses assessment design and the design of student assessment tasks with attention to the abilities, and inabilities, of generative artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT.

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ChatGPT Consistently Fails (Most Parts of) The Assessment Tasks I Assign My Students. Here’s Why.

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2023-02-21

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"I assign the tasks I do because I want to get a sense of what is going on in my students’ minds. I have, for a long time, felt deeply dissatisfied with generic tasks like essays or lab reports for my ability to infer what students are thinking. It seems there might be something in that." - Article excerpt.

In this article, educator Jason M. Lodge discusses assessment design and the design of student assessment tasks with attention to the abilities, and inabilities, of generative artificial intelligence programs such as ChatGPT.

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