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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, advocates and watchdogs warned about the potential for racial bias. The new large language model was created by harvesting \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/gpt-3\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">300 billion words\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from books, articles and online writing, which include racist falsehoods and reflect writers’ implicit biases. Biased training data is likely to generate biased advice, answers and essays. Garbage in, garbage out. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers are starting to document how AI bias manifests in unexpected ways. Inside the research and development arm of the giant testing organization ETS, which administers the SAT, a pair of investigators pitted man against machine in evaluating more than 13,000 essays written by students in grades 8 to 12. They discovered that the AI model that powers ChatGPT penalized Asian American students more than other races and ethnicities in grading the essays. This was purely a research exercise and these essays and machine scores weren’t used in any of ETS’s assessments. But the organization shared its analysis with me to warn schools and teachers about the potential for racial bias when using ChatGPT or other AI apps in the classroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>AI and humans scored essays differently by race and ethnicity\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64143\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1226px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64143\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1226\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image1.png 1226w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image1-800x433.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image1-1020x552.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image1-160x87.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image1-768x416.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1226px) 100vw, 1226px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">“Diff” is the difference between the average score given by humans and GPT-4o in this experiment. “Adj. Diff” adjusts this raw number for the randomness of human ratings. \u003ccite>(Source: Table from Matt Johnson & Mo Zhang “Using GPT-4o to Score Persuade 2.0 Independent Items” ETS, June 2024 draft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Take a little bit of caution and do some evaluation of the scores before presenting them to students,” said Mo Zhang, one of the ETS researchers who conducted the analysis. “There are methods for doing this and you don’t want to take people who specialize in educational measurement out of the equation.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">That might sound self-serving for an employee of a company that specializes in educational measurement. But Zhang’s advice is worth heeding in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62462/8-free-ai-powered-tools-that-can-save-teachers-time-and-enhance-instruction\">excitement to try new AI technology\u003c/a>. There are potential dangers as teachers save time by offloading \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63901/writing-researcher-finds-ai-feedback-better-than-i-thought\">grading work to a robot\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In ETS’s analysis, Zhang and her colleague Matt Johnson fed 13,121 essays into one of the latest versions of the AI model that powers ChatGPT, called GPT 4 Omni or simply \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GPT-4o\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (This version was added to ChatGPT in May 2024, but when the researchers conducted this experiment they used the latest AI model through a different portal.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little background about this \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://zenodo.org/records/8221504\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">large bundle of essays\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Students across the nation had originally written these essays between 2015 and 2019 as part of state standardized exams or classroom assessments. Their assignment had been to write an argumentative essay, such as “Should students be allowed to use cell phones in school?” The essays were collected to help scientists develop and test automated writing evaluation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each of the essays had been graded by expert raters of writing on a 1-to-6 point scale with 6 being the highest score. ETS asked GPT-4o to score them on the same six-point scale using the same scoring guide that the humans used. Neither man nor machine was told the race or ethnicity of the student, but researchers could see students’ demographic information in the datasets that accompany these essays.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GPT-4o marked the essays almost a point lower than the humans did. The average score across the 13,121 essays was 2.8 for GPT-4o and 3.7 for the humans. But Asian Americans were docked by an additional quarter point. Human evaluators gave Asian Americans a 4.3, on average, while GPT-4o gave them only a 3.2 – roughly a 1.1 point deduction. By contrast, the score difference between humans and GPT-4o was only about 0.9 points for white, Black and Hispanic students. Imagine an ice cream truck that kept shaving off an extra quarter scoop only from the cones of Asian American kids. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Clearly, this doesn’t seem fair,” wrote Johnson and Zhang in an unpublished report they shared with me. Though the extra penalty for Asian Americans wasn’t terribly large, they said, it’s substantial enough that it shouldn’t be ignored. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The researchers don’t know why GPT-4o issued lower grades than humans, and why it gave an extra penalty to Asian Americans. Zhang and Johnson described the AI system as a “huge black box” of algorithms that operate in ways “not fully understood by their own developers.” That inability to explain a student’s grade on a writing assignment makes the systems especially frustrating to use in schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2-160x113.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2-768x544.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This table compares GPT-4o scores with human scores on the same batch of 13,121 student essays, which were scored on a 1-to-6 scale. Numbers highlighted in green show exact score matches between GPT-4o and humans. Unhighlighted numbers show discrepancies. For example, there were 1,221 essays where humans awarded a 5 and GPT awarded 3. \u003ccite>(Source: Matt Johnson & Mo Zhang “Using GPT-4o to Score Persuade 2.0 Independent Items” ETS, June 2024 draft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This one study isn’t proof that AI is consistently underrating essays or biased against Asian Americans. Other versions of AI sometimes produce different results. A separate analysis of essay scoring by researchers from University of California, Irvine and Arizona State University found that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63809/ai-essay-grading-could-help-overburdened-teachers-but-researchers-say-it-needs-more-work\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI essay grades were just as frequently too high as they were too low\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That study, which used the 3.5 version of ChatGPT, did not scrutinize results by race and ethnicity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wondered if AI bias against Asian Americans was somehow connected to high achievement. Just as Asian Americans tend to score high on math and reading tests, Asian Americans, on average, were the strongest writers in this bundle of 13,000 essays. Even with the penalty, Asian Americans still had the highest essay scores, well above those of white, Black, Hispanic, Native American or multi-racial students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In both the ETS and UC-ASU essay studies, AI awarded far fewer perfect scores than humans did. For example, in this ETS study, humans awarded 732 perfect 6s, while GPT-4o gave out a grand total of only three. GPT’s stinginess with perfect scores might have affected a lot of Asian Americans who had received 6s from human raters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ETS’s researchers had asked GPT-4o to score the essays cold, without showing the chatbot any graded examples to calibrate its scores. It’s possible that a few sample essays or small tweaks to the grading instructions, or prompts, given to ChatGPT could reduce or eliminate the bias against Asian Americans. Perhaps the robot would be fairer to Asian Americans if it were explicitly prompted to “give out more perfect 6s.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ETS researchers told me this wasn’t the first time that they’ve noticed Asian students treated differently by a robo-grader. Older automated essay graders, which used different algorithms, have sometimes done the opposite, giving Asians higher marks than human raters did. For example, an ETS automated scoring system developed more than a decade ago, called e-rater, tended to inflate scores for students from Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong on their essays for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), according to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/08957347.2012.635502\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study published in 2012\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That may have been because some Asian students had memorized well-structured paragraphs, while humans easily noticed that the essays were off-topic. (The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ets.org/erater/about.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ETS website\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> says it only relies on the e-rater score alone for practice tests, and uses it in conjunction with human scores for actual exams.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asian Americans also garnered higher marks from an automated scoring system \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://github.com/NAEP-AS-Challenge/reading-prediction\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">created during a coding competition in 2021\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and powered by BERT, which had been the most advanced algorithm before the current generation of large language models, such as GPT. Computer scientists put their experimental robo-grader through a series of tests and discovered that it \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5_69\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gave higher scores than humans did to Asian Americans’ open-response answers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a reading comprehension test. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was also unclear why BERT sometimes treated Asian Americans differently. But it illustrates how important it is to test these systems before we unleash them in schools. Based on educator enthusiasm, however, I fear this train has already left the station. In recent webinars, I’ve seen many teachers post in the chat window that they’re already using ChatGPT, Claude and other AI-powered apps to grade writing. That might be a time saver for teachers, but it could also be harming students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-asian-american-ai-bias/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI bias\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">A little background about this \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://zenodo.org/records/8221504\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">large bundle of essays\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Students across the nation had originally written these essays between 2015 and 2019 as part of state standardized exams or classroom assessments. Their assignment had been to write an argumentative essay, such as “Should students be allowed to use cell phones in school?” The essays were collected to help scientists develop and test automated writing evaluation.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Each of the essays had been graded by expert raters of writing on a 1-to-6 point scale with 6 being the highest score. ETS asked GPT-4o to score them on the same six-point scale using the same scoring guide that the humans used. Neither man nor machine was told the race or ethnicity of the student, but researchers could see students’ demographic information in the datasets that accompany these essays.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">GPT-4o marked the essays almost a point lower than the humans did. The average score across the 13,121 essays was 2.8 for GPT-4o and 3.7 for the humans. But Asian Americans were docked by an additional quarter point. Human evaluators gave Asian Americans a 4.3, on average, while GPT-4o gave them only a 3.2 – roughly a 1.1 point deduction. By contrast, the score difference between humans and GPT-4o was only about 0.9 points for white, Black and Hispanic students. Imagine an ice cream truck that kept shaving off an extra quarter scoop only from the cones of Asian American kids. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“Clearly, this doesn’t seem fair,” wrote Johnson and Zhang in an unpublished report they shared with me. Though the extra penalty for Asian Americans wasn’t terribly large, they said, it’s substantial enough that it shouldn’t be ignored. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The researchers don’t know why GPT-4o issued lower grades than humans, and why it gave an extra penalty to Asian Americans. Zhang and Johnson described the AI system as a “huge black box” of algorithms that operate in ways “not fully understood by their own developers.” That inability to explain a student’s grade on a writing assignment makes the systems especially frustrating to use in schools.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64142\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64142\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2-160x113.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/07/image2-768x544.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This table compares GPT-4o scores with human scores on the same batch of 13,121 student essays, which were scored on a 1-to-6 scale. Numbers highlighted in green show exact score matches between GPT-4o and humans. Unhighlighted numbers show discrepancies. For example, there were 1,221 essays where humans awarded a 5 and GPT awarded 3. \u003ccite>(Source: Matt Johnson & Mo Zhang “Using GPT-4o to Score Persuade 2.0 Independent Items” ETS, June 2024 draft)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This one study isn’t proof that AI is consistently underrating essays or biased against Asian Americans. Other versions of AI sometimes produce different results. A separate analysis of essay scoring by researchers from University of California, Irvine and Arizona State University found that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/63809/ai-essay-grading-could-help-overburdened-teachers-but-researchers-say-it-needs-more-work\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI essay grades were just as frequently too high as they were too low\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. That study, which used the 3.5 version of ChatGPT, did not scrutinize results by race and ethnicity.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">I wondered if AI bias against Asian Americans was somehow connected to high achievement. Just as Asian Americans tend to score high on math and reading tests, Asian Americans, on average, were the strongest writers in this bundle of 13,000 essays. Even with the penalty, Asian Americans still had the highest essay scores, well above those of white, Black, Hispanic, Native American or multi-racial students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In both the ETS and UC-ASU essay studies, AI awarded far fewer perfect scores than humans did. For example, in this ETS study, humans awarded 732 perfect 6s, while GPT-4o gave out a grand total of only three. GPT’s stinginess with perfect scores might have affected a lot of Asian Americans who had received 6s from human raters.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ETS’s researchers had asked GPT-4o to score the essays cold, without showing the chatbot any graded examples to calibrate its scores. It’s possible that a few sample essays or small tweaks to the grading instructions, or prompts, given to ChatGPT could reduce or eliminate the bias against Asian Americans. Perhaps the robot would be fairer to Asian Americans if it were explicitly prompted to “give out more perfect 6s.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ETS researchers told me this wasn’t the first time that they’ve noticed Asian students treated differently by a robo-grader. Older automated essay graders, which used different algorithms, have sometimes done the opposite, giving Asians higher marks than human raters did. For example, an ETS automated scoring system developed more than a decade ago, called e-rater, tended to inflate scores for students from Korea, China, Taiwan and Hong Kong on their essays for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), according to a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://doi.org/10.1080/08957347.2012.635502\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study published in 2012\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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Computer scientists put their experimental robo-grader through a series of tests and discovered that it \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5_69\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">gave higher scores than humans did to Asian Americans’ open-response answers\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> on a reading comprehension test. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was also unclear why BERT sometimes treated Asian Americans differently. But it illustrates how important it is to test these systems before we unleash them in schools. Based on educator enthusiasm, however, I fear this train has already left the station. In recent webinars, I’ve seen many teachers post in the chat window that they’re already using ChatGPT, Claude and other AI-powered apps to grade writing. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two new surveys, both released this month, show how high school and college-age students are embracing artificial intelligence. There are some inconsistencies and many unanswered questions, but what stands out is how much teens are turning to AI for information and to ask questions, not just to do their homework for them. And they’re using it for personal reasons as well as for school. Another big takeaway is that there are different patterns by race and ethnicity with Black, Hispanic and Asian American students often adopting AI faster than white students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/research/report/teen-and-young-adult-perspectives-on-generative-ai.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">first report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, released on June 3, was conducted by three nonprofit organizations, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.hopelab.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hopelab\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsense.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Common Sense Media,\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Center for Digital Thriving at the Harvard Graduate School of Education\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. These organizations surveyed 1,274 teens and young adults aged 14-22 across the U.S. from October to November 2023. At that time, only half the teens and young adults said they had ever used AI, with just 4% using it daily or almost every day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Emily Weinstein, executive director for the Center for Digital Thriving, a research center that investigates how youth are interacting with technology, said that more teens are “certainly” using AI now that these tools are embedded in more apps and websites, such as Google Search. Last October and November, when this survey was conducted, teens typically had to take the initiative to navigate to an AI site and create an account. An exception was Snapchat, a social media app that had already added an AI chatbot for its users.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64016\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"632\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image1-1.png 632w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image1-1-160x259.png 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than half of the early adopters said they had used AI for getting information and for brainstorming, the first and second most popular uses. This survey didn’t ask teens if they were using AI for cheating, such as prompting ChatGPT to write their papers for them. However, among the half of respondents who were already using AI, fewer than half – 46% – said they were using it for help with school work. The fourth most common use was for generating pictures.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The survey also asked teens a couple of open-response questions. Some teens told researchers that they are asking AI private questions that they were too embarrassed to ask their parents or their friends. “Teens are telling us I have questions that are easier to ask robots than people,” said Weinstein.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weinstein wants to know more about the quality and the accuracy of the answers that AI is giving teens, especially those with mental health struggles, and how privacy is being protected when students share personal information with chatbots.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://8ce82b94a8c4fdc3ea6d-b1d233e3bc3cb10858bea65ff05e18f2.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/bf/24/cd3646584af89e7c668c7705a006/deck-impact-analysis-national-schools-tech-tracker-may-2024-1.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">second report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, released on June 11, was conducted by Impact Research and commissioned by the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/learning/the-value-of-ai-in-todays-classrooms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walton Family Foundation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In May 2024, Impact Research surveyed 1,003 teachers, 1,001 students aged 12-18, 1,003 college students, and 1,000 parents about their use and views of AI.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This survey, which took place six months after the Hopelab-Common Sense survey, demonstrated how quickly usage is growing. It found that 49% of students, aged 12-18, said they used ChatGPT at least once a week for school, up 26 percentage points since 2023. Forty-nine percent of college undergraduates also said they were using ChatGPT every week for school but there was no comparison data from 2023.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among 12- to 18-year-olds and college students who had used AI chatbots for school, 56% said they had used it for help in writing essays and other writing assignments. Undergraduate students were more than twice as likely as 12- to 18-year-olds to say using AI felt like cheating, 22% versus 8%. Earlier \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/news/what-do-ai-chatbots-really-mean-students-and-cheating\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2023 surveys of student cheating by scholars at Stanford\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> University did not detect an increase in cheating with ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. But as students use AI more, students’ understanding of what constitutes cheating may also be evolving. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1552\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1.png 1552w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-768x592.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-1536x1184.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1552px) 100vw, 1552px\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 60% of college students who used AI said they were using it to study for tests and quizzes. Half of the college students who used AI said they were using it to deepen their subject knowledge, perhaps, as if it were an online encyclopedia. There was no indication from this survey if students were checking the accuracy of the information.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both surveys noticed differences by race and ethnicity. The first Hopelab-Common Sense survey found that 7% of Black students, aged 14-22, were using AI every day, compared with 5% of Hispanic students and 3% of white students. In the open-ended questions, one Black teen girl wrote that, with AI, “we can change who we are and become someone else that we want to become.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Walton Foundation survey found that Hispanic and Asian American students were sometimes more likely to use AI than white and Black students, especially for personal purposes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are all early snapshots that are likely to keep shifting. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-partners-with-openai-for-chatgpt-on-iphones-ipads-and-macs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OpenAI is expected to become part of the Apple \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">universe in the fall, including its iPhones, computers and iPads. “These numbers are going to go up and they’re going to go up really fast,” said Weinstein. “Imagine that we could go back 15 years in time when social media use was just starting with teens. 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Some teens told researchers that they are asking AI private questions that they were too embarrassed to ask their parents or their friends. “Teens are telling us I have questions that are easier to ask robots than people,” said Weinstein.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Weinstein wants to know more about the quality and the accuracy of the answers that AI is giving teens, especially those with mental health struggles, and how privacy is being protected when students share personal information with chatbots.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://8ce82b94a8c4fdc3ea6d-b1d233e3bc3cb10858bea65ff05e18f2.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/bf/24/cd3646584af89e7c668c7705a006/deck-impact-analysis-national-schools-tech-tracker-may-2024-1.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">second report\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, released on June 11, was conducted by Impact Research and commissioned by the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.waltonfamilyfoundation.org/learning/the-value-of-ai-in-todays-classrooms\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Walton Family Foundation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In May 2024, Impact Research surveyed 1,003 teachers, 1,001 students aged 12-18, 1,003 college students, and 1,000 parents about their use and views of AI.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This survey, which took place six months after the Hopelab-Common Sense survey, demonstrated how quickly usage is growing. It found that 49% of students, aged 12-18, said they used ChatGPT at least once a week for school, up 26 percentage points since 2023. Forty-nine percent of college undergraduates also said they were using ChatGPT every week for school but there was no comparison data from 2023.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Among 12- to 18-year-olds and college students who had used AI chatbots for school, 56% said they had used it for help in writing essays and other writing assignments. Undergraduate students were more than twice as likely as 12- to 18-year-olds to say using AI felt like cheating, 22% versus 8%. Earlier \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.stanford.edu/news/what-do-ai-chatbots-really-mean-students-and-cheating\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">2023 surveys of student cheating by scholars at Stanford\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> University did not detect an increase in cheating with ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. But as students use AI more, students’ understanding of what constitutes cheating may also be evolving. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-64017\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1552\" height=\"1196\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1.png 1552w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-800x616.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-1020x786.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-160x123.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-768x592.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-1-1536x1184.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1552px) 100vw, 1552px\">\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 60% of college students who used AI said they were using it to study for tests and quizzes. Half of the college students who used AI said they were using it to deepen their subject knowledge, perhaps, as if it were an online encyclopedia. There was no indication from this survey if students were checking the accuracy of the information.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Both surveys noticed differences by race and ethnicity. The first Hopelab-Common Sense survey found that 7% of Black students, aged 14-22, were using AI every day, compared with 5% of Hispanic students and 3% of white students. In the open-ended questions, one Black teen girl wrote that, with AI, “we can change who we are and become someone else that we want to become.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Walton Foundation survey found that Hispanic and Asian American students were sometimes more likely to use AI than white and Black students, especially for personal purposes. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These are all early snapshots that are likely to keep shifting. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/apple-partners-with-openai-for-chatgpt-on-iphones-ipads-and-macs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">OpenAI is expected to become part of the Apple \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">universe in the fall, including its iPhones, computers and iPads. “These numbers are going to go up and they’re going to go up really fast,” said Weinstein. “Imagine that we could go back 15 years in time when social media use was just starting with teens. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week I challenged my editor to face off against a machine. Barbara Kantrowitz gamely accepted, under one condition: “You have to file early.” Ever since ChatGPT arrived in 2022, many journalists have made a public stunt out of asking the new generation of artificial intelligence to write their stories. Those AI stories were often bland and sprinkled with errors. I wanted to understand how well ChatGPT handled a different aspect of writing: giving feedback.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My curiosity was piqued by a new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475224000215\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, published in the June 2024 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Learning and Instruction, that evaluated the quality of ChatGPT’s feedback on students’ writing. A team of researchers compared AI with human feedback on 200 history essays written by students in grades 6 through 12 and they determined that human feedback was generally a bit better. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But ChatGPT came close. On a five-point scale that the researchers used to rate feedback quality, with a 5 being the highest quality feedback, ChatGPT averaged a 3.6 compared with a 4.0 average from a team of 16 expert human evaluators. It was a tough challenge. Most of these humans had taught writing for more than 15 years or they had considerable experience in writing instruction. All received three hours of training for this exercise plus extra pay for providing the feedback.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ChatGPT even beat these experts in one aspect; it was slightly better at giving feedback on students’ reasoning, argumentation and use of evidence from source materials – the features that the researchers had wanted the writing evaluators to focus on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was better than I thought it was going to be because I didn’t have a lot of hope that it was going to be that good,” said Steve Graham, a well-regarded expert on writing instruction at Arizona State University, and a member of the study’s research team. “It wasn’t always accurate. But sometimes it was right on the money. And I think we’ll learn how to make it better.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Average ratings for the quality of ChatGPT and human feedback on 200 student essays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63905 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3-768x465.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers rated the quality of the feedback on a five-point scale across five different categories. Criteria-based refers to whether the feedback addressed the main goals of the writing assignment, in this case, to produce a well-reasoned argument about history using evidence from the reading source materials that the students were given. Clear directions mean whether the feedback included specific examples of something the student did well and clear directions for improvement. Accuracy means whether the feedback advice was correct without errors. Essential Features refer to whether the suggestion on what the student should work on next is appropriate for where the student is in his writing development and is an important element of this genre of writing. Supportive Tone refers to whether the feedback is delivered with language that is affirming, respectful and supportive, as opposed to condescending, impolite or authoritarian. \u003ccite>(Source: Fig. 1 of Steiss et al, “Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing,” Learning and Instruction, June 2024.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exactly how ChatGPT is able to give good feedback is something of a black box even to the writing researchers who conducted this study. Artificial intelligence doesn’t comprehend things in the same way that humans do. But somehow, through the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/how-large-language-models-work-91c362f5b78f#:~:text=ChatGPT%2C%20for%20example%2C%20is%20based,to%20process%20images%20and%20text.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">neural networks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that ChatGPT’s programmers built, it is picking up on patterns from all the writing it has previously digested, and it is able to apply those patterns to a new text. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The surprising “relatively high quality” of ChatGPT’s feedback is important because it means that the new artificial intelligence of large language models, also known as generative AI, could potentially help students improve their writing. One of the biggest problems in writing instruction in U.S. schools is that teachers assign too little writing, Graham said, often because teachers feel that they don’t have the time to give personalized feedback to each student. That leaves students without sufficient practice to become good writers. In theory, teachers might be willing to assign more writing or insist on revisions for each paper if students (or teachers) could use ChatGPT to provide feedback between drafts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the potential, Graham isn’t an enthusiastic cheerleader for AI. “My biggest fear is that it becomes the writer,” he said. He worries that students will not limit their use of ChatGPT to helpful feedback, but ask it to do their thinking, analyzing and writing for them. That’s not good for learning. The research team also worries that writing instruction will suffer if teachers delegate too much feedback to ChatGPT. Seeing students’ incremental progress and common mistakes remain important for deciding what to teach next, the researchers said. For example, seeing loads of run-on sentences in your students’ papers might prompt a lesson on how to break them up. But if you don’t see them, you might not think to teach it. Another common concern among writing instructors is that AI feedback will steer everyone to write in the same homogenized way. A young writer’s unique voice could be flattened out before it even has the chance to develop.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s also the risk that students may not be interested in heeding AI feedback. Students often ignore the painstaking feedback that their teachers already give on their essays. Why should we think students will pay attention to feedback if they start getting more of it from a machine? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Graham and his research colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, are continuing to study how AI could be used effectively and whether it ultimately improves students’ writing. “You can’t ignore it,” said Graham. “We either learn to live with it in useful ways, or we’re going to be very unhappy with it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right now, the researchers are studying how students might \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YzgckyaLgFwlj3jDILohq9xZ8Ec5msmS/edit\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">converse back-and-forth with ChatGPT like a writing coach\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in order to understand the feedback and decide which suggestions to use.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Example of feedback from a human and ChatGPT on the same essay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-768x961.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steiss et al, “Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing,” Learning and Instruction, June 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the current study, the researchers didn’t track whether students understood or employed the feedback, but only sought to measure its quality. Judging the quality of feedback is a rather subjective exercise, just as feedback itself is a bundle of subjective judgment calls. Smart people can disagree on what good writing looks like and how to revise bad writing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this case, the research team came up with its own criteria for what constitutes good feedback on a history essay. They instructed the humans to focus on the student’s reasoning and argumentation, rather than, say, grammar and punctuation. They also told the human raters to adopt a “glow and grow strategy” for delivering the feedback by first finding something to praise, then identifying a particular area for improvement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The human raters provided this kind of feedback on hundreds of history essays from 2021 to 2023, as part of an unrelated study of an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.writecenter.org/uclaims-curriculum.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">initiative to boost writing at school\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The researchers randomly grabbed 200 of these essays and fed the raw student writing – without the human feedback – to version 3.5 of ChatGPT and asked it to give feedback, too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At first, the AI feedback was terrible, but as the researchers tinkered with the instructions, or the “prompt,” they typed into ChatGPT, the feedback improved. The researchers eventually settled upon this wording: “Pretend you are a secondary school teacher. Provide 2-3 pieces of specific, actionable feedback on each of the following essays. … Use a friendly and encouraging tone.” The researchers also fed the assignment that the students were given, for example, “Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott succeed?” along with the reading source material that the students were provided. (More details about how the researchers prompted ChatGPT are explained in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1-s2.0-S0959475224000215-mmc1-1.docx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Appendix C of the study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The humans took about 20 to 25 minutes per essay. ChatGPT’s feedback came back instantly. The humans sometimes marked up sentences by, for example, showing a place where the student could have cited a source to buttress an argument. ChatGPT didn’t write any in-line comments and only wrote a note to the student. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers then read through both sets of feedback – human and machine – for each essay, comparing and rating them. (It was supposed to be a blind comparison test and the feedback raters were not told who authored each one. However, the language and tone of ChatGPT were distinct giveaways, and the in-line comments were a tell of human feedback.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humans appeared to have a clear edge with the very strongest and the very weakest writers, the researchers found. They were better at pushing a strong writer a little bit further, for example, by suggesting that the student consider and address a counterargument. ChatGPT struggled to come up with ideas for a student who was already meeting the objectives of a well-argued essay with evidence from the reading source materials. ChatGPT also struggled with the weakest writers. The researchers had to drop two of the essays from the study because they were so short that ChatGPT didn’t have any feedback for the student. The human rater was able to parse out some meaning from a brief, incomplete sentence and offer a suggestion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In one student essay about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, reprinted above, the human feedback seemed too generic to me: “Next time, I would love to see some evidence from the sources to help back up your claim.” ChatGPT, by contrast, specifically suggested that the student could have mentioned how much revenue the bus company lost during the boycott – an idea that was mentioned in the student’s essay. ChatGPT also suggested that the student could have mentioned specific actions that the NAACP and other organizations took. But the student had actually mentioned a few of these specific actions in his essay. That part of ChatGPT’s feedback was plainly inaccurate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In another student writing example, also reprinted below, the human straightforwardly pointed out that the student had gotten an historical fact wrong. ChatGPT appeared to affirm that the student’s mistaken version of events was correct.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another example of feedback from a human and ChatGPT on the same essay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steiss et al, “Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing,” Learning and Instruction, June 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did ChatGPT’s review of my first draft stack up against my editor’s? One of the researchers on the study team suggested a prompt that I could paste into ChatGPT. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a few back and forth questions with the chatbot about my grade level and intended audience, it initially spit out some generic advice that had little connection to the ideas and words of my story. It seemed more interested in format and presentation, suggesting a summary at the top and subheads to organize the body. One suggestion would have made my piece too long-winded. Its advice to add examples of how AI feedback might be beneficial was something that I had already done. I then asked for specific things to change in my draft, and ChatGPT came back with some great subhead ideas. I plan to use them in my newsletter, which you can see if you \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up for it here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (And if you want to see my prompt and dialogue with ChatGPT, here is the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://chatgpt.com/share/97261c91-5ef7-461a-b612-47749f915c5e\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">link\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My human editor, Barbara, was the clear winner in this round. She tightened up my writing, fixed style errors and helped me brainstorm this ending. Barbara’s job is safe – for now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This story about \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proof-points-writing-ai-feedback/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">AI feedback\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was written by Jill Barshay and produced by \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/special-reports/higher-education/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Hechinger Report\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This week I challenged my editor to face off against a machine. Barbara Kantrowitz gamely accepted, under one condition: “You have to file early.” Ever since ChatGPT arrived in 2022, many journalists have made a public stunt out of asking the new generation of artificial intelligence to write their stories. Those AI stories were often bland and sprinkled with errors. I wanted to understand how well ChatGPT handled a different aspect of writing: giving feedback.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My curiosity was piqued by a new \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475224000215\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, published in the June 2024 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Learning and Instruction, that evaluated the quality of ChatGPT’s feedback on students’ writing. A team of researchers compared AI with human feedback on 200 history essays written by students in grades 6 through 12 and they determined that human feedback was generally a bit better. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But ChatGPT came close. On a five-point scale that the researchers used to rate feedback quality, with a 5 being the highest quality feedback, ChatGPT averaged a 3.6 compared with a 4.0 average from a team of 16 expert human evaluators. It was a tough challenge. Most of these humans had taught writing for more than 15 years or they had considerable experience in writing instruction. All received three hours of training for this exercise plus extra pay for providing the feedback.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ChatGPT even beat these experts in one aspect; it was slightly better at giving feedback on students’ reasoning, argumentation and use of evidence from source materials – the features that the researchers had wanted the writing evaluators to focus on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It was better than I thought it was going to be because I didn’t have a lot of hope that it was going to be that good,” said Steve Graham, a well-regarded expert on writing instruction at Arizona State University, and a member of the study’s research team. “It wasn’t always accurate. But sometimes it was right on the money. And I think we’ll learn how to make it better.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Average ratings for the quality of ChatGPT and human feedback on 200 student essays\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63905\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63905 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3-160x97.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image3-768x465.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Researchers rated the quality of the feedback on a five-point scale across five different categories. Criteria-based refers to whether the feedback addressed the main goals of the writing assignment, in this case, to produce a well-reasoned argument about history using evidence from the reading source materials that the students were given. Clear directions mean whether the feedback included specific examples of something the student did well and clear directions for improvement. Accuracy means whether the feedback advice was correct without errors. Essential Features refer to whether the suggestion on what the student should work on next is appropriate for where the student is in his writing development and is an important element of this genre of writing. Supportive Tone refers to whether the feedback is delivered with language that is affirming, respectful and supportive, as opposed to condescending, impolite or authoritarian. \u003ccite>(Source: Fig. 1 of Steiss et al, “Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing,” Learning and Instruction, June 2024.)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Exactly how ChatGPT is able to give good feedback is something of a black box even to the writing researchers who conducted this study. Artificial intelligence doesn’t comprehend things in the same way that humans do. But somehow, through the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/data-science-at-microsoft/how-large-language-models-work-91c362f5b78f#:~:text=ChatGPT%2C%20for%20example%2C%20is%20based,to%20process%20images%20and%20text.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">neural networks\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> that ChatGPT’s programmers built, it is picking up on patterns from all the writing it has previously digested, and it is able to apply those patterns to a new text. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The surprising “relatively high quality” of ChatGPT’s feedback is important because it means that the new artificial intelligence of large language models, also known as generative AI, could potentially help students improve their writing. One of the biggest problems in writing instruction in U.S. schools is that teachers assign too little writing, Graham said, often because teachers feel that they don’t have the time to give personalized feedback to each student. That leaves students without sufficient practice to become good writers. In theory, teachers might be willing to assign more writing or insist on revisions for each paper if students (or teachers) could use ChatGPT to provide feedback between drafts. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite the potential, Graham isn’t an enthusiastic cheerleader for AI. “My biggest fear is that it becomes the writer,” he said. He worries that students will not limit their use of ChatGPT to helpful feedback, but ask it to do their thinking, analyzing and writing for them. That’s not good for learning. The research team also worries that writing instruction will suffer if teachers delegate too much feedback to ChatGPT. Seeing students’ incremental progress and common mistakes remain important for deciding what to teach next, the researchers said. For example, seeing loads of run-on sentences in your students’ papers might prompt a lesson on how to break them up. But if you don’t see them, you might not think to teach it. Another common concern among writing instructors is that AI feedback will steer everyone to write in the same homogenized way. A young writer’s unique voice could be flattened out before it even has the chance to develop.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There’s also the risk that students may not be interested in heeding AI feedback. Students often ignore the painstaking feedback that their teachers already give on their essays. Why should we think students will pay attention to feedback if they start getting more of it from a machine? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, Graham and his research colleagues at the University of California, Irvine, are continuing to study how AI could be used effectively and whether it ultimately improves students’ writing. “You can’t ignore it,” said Graham. “We either learn to live with it in useful ways, or we’re going to be very unhappy with it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Right now, the researchers are studying how students might \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YzgckyaLgFwlj3jDILohq9xZ8Ec5msmS/edit\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">converse back-and-forth with ChatGPT like a writing coach\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in order to understand the feedback and decide which suggestions to use.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Example of feedback from a human and ChatGPT on the same essay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63906\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63906\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"976\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-160x200.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image2-768x961.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steiss et al, “Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing,” Learning and Instruction, June 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the current study, the researchers didn’t track whether students understood or employed the feedback, but only sought to measure its quality. Judging the quality of feedback is a rather subjective exercise, just as feedback itself is a bundle of subjective judgment calls. Smart people can disagree on what good writing looks like and how to revise bad writing. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this case, the research team came up with its own criteria for what constitutes good feedback on a history essay. They instructed the humans to focus on the student’s reasoning and argumentation, rather than, say, grammar and punctuation. They also told the human raters to adopt a “glow and grow strategy” for delivering the feedback by first finding something to praise, then identifying a particular area for improvement. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The human raters provided this kind of feedback on hundreds of history essays from 2021 to 2023, as part of an unrelated study of an \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.writecenter.org/uclaims-curriculum.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">initiative to boost writing at school\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The researchers randomly grabbed 200 of these essays and fed the raw student writing – without the human feedback – to version 3.5 of ChatGPT and asked it to give feedback, too.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At first, the AI feedback was terrible, but as the researchers tinkered with the instructions, or the “prompt,” they typed into ChatGPT, the feedback improved. The researchers eventually settled upon this wording: “Pretend you are a secondary school teacher. Provide 2-3 pieces of specific, actionable feedback on each of the following essays. … Use a friendly and encouraging tone.” The researchers also fed the assignment that the students were given, for example, “Why did the Montgomery Bus Boycott succeed?” along with the reading source material that the students were provided. (More details about how the researchers prompted ChatGPT are explained in \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1-s2.0-S0959475224000215-mmc1-1.docx\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Appendix C of the study\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The humans took about 20 to 25 minutes per essay. ChatGPT’s feedback came back instantly. The humans sometimes marked up sentences by, for example, showing a place where the student could have cited a source to buttress an argument. ChatGPT didn’t write any in-line comments and only wrote a note to the student. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Researchers then read through both sets of feedback – human and machine – for each essay, comparing and rating them. (It was supposed to be a blind comparison test and the feedback raters were not told who authored each one. However, the language and tone of ChatGPT were distinct giveaways, and the in-line comments were a tell of human feedback.)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Humans appeared to have a clear edge with the very strongest and the very weakest writers, the researchers found. They were better at pushing a strong writer a little bit further, for example, by suggesting that the student consider and address a counterargument. ChatGPT struggled to come up with ideas for a student who was already meeting the objectives of a well-argued essay with evidence from the reading source materials. ChatGPT also struggled with the weakest writers. The researchers had to drop two of the essays from the study because they were so short that ChatGPT didn’t have any feedback for the student. The human rater was able to parse out some meaning from a brief, incomplete sentence and offer a suggestion. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In one student essay about the Montgomery Bus Boycott, reprinted above, the human feedback seemed too generic to me: “Next time, I would love to see some evidence from the sources to help back up your claim.” ChatGPT, by contrast, specifically suggested that the student could have mentioned how much revenue the bus company lost during the boycott – an idea that was mentioned in the student’s essay. ChatGPT also suggested that the student could have mentioned specific actions that the NAACP and other organizations took. But the student had actually mentioned a few of these specific actions in his essay. That part of ChatGPT’s feedback was plainly inaccurate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In another student writing example, also reprinted below, the human straightforwardly pointed out that the student had gotten an historical fact wrong. ChatGPT appeared to affirm that the student’s mistaken version of events was correct.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Another example of feedback from a human and ChatGPT on the same essay\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63904\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63904\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"603\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4.jpg 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/06/image4-768x594.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steiss et al, “Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing,” Learning and Instruction, June 2024.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did ChatGPT’s review of my first draft stack up against my editor’s? One of the researchers on the study team suggested a prompt that I could paste into ChatGPT. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a few back and forth questions with the chatbot about my grade level and intended audience, it initially spit out some generic advice that had little connection to the ideas and words of my story. It seemed more interested in format and presentation, suggesting a summary at the top and subheads to organize the body. One suggestion would have made my piece too long-winded. Its advice to add examples of how AI feedback might be beneficial was something that I had already done. I then asked for specific things to change in my draft, and ChatGPT came back with some great subhead ideas. I plan to use them in my newsletter, which you can see if you \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hechingerreport.org/proofpoints/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up for it here\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. (And if you want to see my prompt and dialogue with ChatGPT, here is the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://chatgpt.com/share/97261c91-5ef7-461a-b612-47749f915c5e\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">link\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">My human editor, Barbara, was the clear winner in this round. She tightened up my writing, fixed style errors and helped me brainstorm this ending. Barbara’s job is safe – for now. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grading papers is hard work. “I hate it,” a teacher friend confessed to me. And that’s a major reason why middle and high school teachers don’t assign more writing to their students. Even an efficient high school English teacher who can read and evaluate an essay in 20 minutes would spend 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, grading if she’s teaching six classes of 25 students each. There aren’t enough hours in the day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Could ChatGPT relieve teachers of some of the burden of grading papers? Early research is finding that the new \u003ca href=\"https://kqed.org/mindshift/tag/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> of large language models, also known as generative AI, is approaching the accuracy of a human in scoring essays and is likely to become even better soon. But we still don’t know whether offloading essay grading to ChatGPT will ultimately improve or harm student writing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tamara Tate, a researcher at University California, Irvine, and an associate director of her university’s Digital Learning Lab, is studying how teachers might use ChatGPT to improve writing instruction. Most recently, Tate and her seven-member research team, which includes writing expert Steve Graham at Arizona State University, compared how ChatGPT stacked up against humans in scoring 1,800 history and English essays written by middle and high school students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tate said ChatGPT was “roughly speaking, probably as good as an average busy teacher” and “certainly as good as an overburdened below-average teacher.” But, she said, ChatGPT isn’t yet accurate enough to be used on a high-stakes test or on an essay that would affect a final grade in a class.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tate presented her \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://osf.io/preprints/osf/7xpre\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study on ChatGPT essay scoring\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia in April. (The paper is under peer review for publication and is still undergoing revision.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most remarkably, the researchers obtained these fairly decent essay scores from ChatGPT without training it first with sample essays. That means it is possible for any teacher to use it to grade any essay instantly with minimal expense and effort. “Teachers might have more bandwidth to assign more writing,” said Tate. “You have to be careful how you say that because you never want to take teachers out of the loop.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing instruction could ultimately suffer, Tate warned, if teachers delegate too much grading to ChatGPT. Seeing students’ incremental progress and common mistakes remain important for deciding what to teach next, she said. For example, seeing loads of run-on sentences in your students’ papers might prompt a lesson on how to break them up. But if you don’t see them, you might not think to teach it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the study, Tate and her research team calculated that ChatGPT’s essay scores were in “fair” to “moderate” agreement with those of well-trained human evaluators. In one batch of 943 essays, ChatGPT was within a point of the human grader 89% of the time. On a six-point grading scale that researchers used in the study, ChatGPT often gave an essay a 2 when an expert human evaluator thought it was really a 1. But this level of agreement – within one point – dropped to 83% of the time in another batch of 344 English papers and slid even farther to 76% of the time in a third batch of 493 history essays. That means there were more instances where ChatGPT gave an essay a 4, for example, when a teacher marked it a 6. And that’s why Tate says these ChatGPT grades should only be used for low-stakes purposes in a classroom, such as a preliminary grade on a first draft.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ChatGPT scored an essay within one point of a human grader 89% of the time in one batch of essays\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1-160x55.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1-768x265.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corpus 3 refers to one batch of 943 essays, which represents more than half of the 1,800 essays that were scored in this study. Numbers highlighted in green show exact score matches between ChatGPT and a human. Yellow highlights scores in which ChatGPT was within one point of the human score. \u003ccite>(Source: Tamara Tate, University of California, Irvine (2024))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, this level of accuracy was impressive because even teachers disagree on how to score an essay and one-point discrepancies are common. Exact agreement, which only happens half the time between human raters, was worse for AI, which matched the human score exactly only about 40% of the time. Humans were far more likely to give a top grade of a 6 or a bottom grade of a 1. ChatGPT tended to cluster grades more in the middle, between 2 and 5. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tate set up ChatGPT for a tough challenge, competing against teachers and experts with PhDs who had received three hours of training in how to properly evaluate essays. “Teachers generally receive very little training in secondary school writing and they’re not going to be this accurate,” said Tate. “This is a gold-standard human evaluator we have here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The raters had been paid to score these 1,800 essays as part of three earlier studies on student writing. Researchers fed these same student essays – ungraded – into ChatGPT and asked ChatGPT to score them cold. ChatGPT hadn’t been given any graded examples to calibrate its scores. All the researchers did was copy and paste an excerpt of the same scoring guidelines that the humans used, called a grading rubric, into ChatGPT and told it to “pretend” it was a teacher and score the essays on a scale of 1 to 6. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Older robo graders\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier versions of automated essay graders have had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ets.org/content/dam/ets-org/pdfs/e-rater/e-rater-research-publications.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">higher rates of accuracy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But they were expensive and time-consuming to create because scientists had to train the computer with hundreds of human-graded essays for each essay question. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Grading papers is hard work. “I hate it,” a teacher friend confessed to me. And that’s a major reason why middle and high school teachers don’t assign more writing to their students. Even an efficient high school English teacher who can read and evaluate an essay in 20 minutes would spend 3,000 minutes, or 50 hours, grading if she’s teaching six classes of 25 students each. There aren’t enough hours in the day. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Could ChatGPT relieve teachers of some of the burden of grading papers? Early research is finding that the new \u003ca href=\"https://kqed.org/mindshift/tag/artificial-intelligence\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> of large language models, also known as generative AI, is approaching the accuracy of a human in scoring essays and is likely to become even better soon. But we still don’t know whether offloading essay grading to ChatGPT will ultimately improve or harm student writing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tamara Tate, a researcher at University California, Irvine, and an associate director of her university’s Digital Learning Lab, is studying how teachers might use ChatGPT to improve writing instruction. Most recently, Tate and her seven-member research team, which includes writing expert Steve Graham at Arizona State University, compared how ChatGPT stacked up against humans in scoring 1,800 history and English essays written by middle and high school students. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tate said ChatGPT was “roughly speaking, probably as good as an average busy teacher” and “certainly as good as an overburdened below-average teacher.” But, she said, ChatGPT isn’t yet accurate enough to be used on a high-stakes test or on an essay that would affect a final grade in a class.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tate presented her \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://osf.io/preprints/osf/7xpre\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">study on ChatGPT essay scoring\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> at the 2024 annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in Philadelphia in April. (The paper is under peer review for publication and is still undergoing revision.) \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Most remarkably, the researchers obtained these fairly decent essay scores from ChatGPT without training it first with sample essays. That means it is possible for any teacher to use it to grade any essay instantly with minimal expense and effort. “Teachers might have more bandwidth to assign more writing,” said Tate. “You have to be careful how you say that because you never want to take teachers out of the loop.” \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Writing instruction could ultimately suffer, Tate warned, if teachers delegate too much grading to ChatGPT. Seeing students’ incremental progress and common mistakes remain important for deciding what to teach next, she said. For example, seeing loads of run-on sentences in your students’ papers might prompt a lesson on how to break them up. But if you don’t see them, you might not think to teach it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the study, Tate and her research team calculated that ChatGPT’s essay scores were in “fair” to “moderate” agreement with those of well-trained human evaluators. In one batch of 943 essays, ChatGPT was within a point of the human grader 89% of the time. On a six-point grading scale that researchers used in the study, ChatGPT often gave an essay a 2 when an expert human evaluator thought it was really a 1. But this level of agreement – within one point – dropped to 83% of the time in another batch of 344 English papers and slid even farther to 76% of the time in a third batch of 493 history essays. That means there were more instances where ChatGPT gave an essay a 4, for example, when a teacher marked it a 6. And that’s why Tate says these ChatGPT grades should only be used for low-stakes purposes in a classroom, such as a preliminary grade on a first draft.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>ChatGPT scored an essay within one point of a human grader 89% of the time in one batch of essays\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_63815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1-160x55.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/05/image1-1-768x265.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Corpus 3 refers to one batch of 943 essays, which represents more than half of the 1,800 essays that were scored in this study. Numbers highlighted in green show exact score matches between ChatGPT and a human. Yellow highlights scores in which ChatGPT was within one point of the human score. \u003ccite>(Source: Tamara Tate, University of California, Irvine (2024))\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Still, this level of accuracy was impressive because even teachers disagree on how to score an essay and one-point discrepancies are common. Exact agreement, which only happens half the time between human raters, was worse for AI, which matched the human score exactly only about 40% of the time. Humans were far more likely to give a top grade of a 6 or a bottom grade of a 1. ChatGPT tended to cluster grades more in the middle, between 2 and 5. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tate set up ChatGPT for a tough challenge, competing against teachers and experts with PhDs who had received three hours of training in how to properly evaluate essays. “Teachers generally receive very little training in secondary school writing and they’re not going to be this accurate,” said Tate. “This is a gold-standard human evaluator we have here.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The raters had been paid to score these 1,800 essays as part of three earlier studies on student writing. Researchers fed these same student essays – ungraded – into ChatGPT and asked ChatGPT to score them cold. ChatGPT hadn’t been given any graded examples to calibrate its scores. All the researchers did was copy and paste an excerpt of the same scoring guidelines that the humans used, called a grading rubric, into ChatGPT and told it to “pretend” it was a teacher and score the essays on a scale of 1 to 6. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Older robo graders\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier versions of automated essay graders have had \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ets.org/content/dam/ets-org/pdfs/e-rater/e-rater-research-publications.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">higher rates of accuracy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. But they were expensive and time-consuming to create because scientists had to train the computer with hundreds of human-graded essays for each essay question. That’s economically feasible only in limited situations, such as for a standardized test, where thousands of students answer the same essay question. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Earlier robo graders could also be gamed, once a student understood the features that the computer system was grading for. In some cases, nonsense essays received high marks if fancy \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.lornacollier.com/robogradingCC912.pdf\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">vocabulary words\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> were sprinkled in them. ChatGPT isn’t grading for particular hallmarks, but is analyzing patterns in massive datasets of language. Tate says she hasn’t yet seen ChatGPT give a high score to a nonsense essay. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Tate expects ChatGPT’s grading accuracy to improve rapidly as new versions are released. Already, the research team has detected that the newer 4.0 version, which requires a paid subscription, is scoring more accurately than the free 3.5 version. Tate suspects that small tweaks to the grading instructions, or prompts, given to ChatGPT could improve existing versions. She is interested in testing whether ChatGPT’s scoring could become more reliable if a teacher trained it with just a few, perhaps five, sample essays that she has already graded. “Your average teacher might be willing to do that,” said Tate.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Many ed tech startups, and even well-known vendors of educational materials, are now marketing \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.essaygrader.ai/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">new AI essay robo graders\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to schools. Many of them are powered under the hood by ChatGPT or another large language model and I learned from this study that accuracy rates can be reported in ways that can make the new AI graders seem more accurate than they are. Tate’s team calculated that, on a population level, there was no difference between human and AI scores. ChatGPT can already reliably tell you the average essay score in a school or, say, in the state of California. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Questions for AI vendors\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At this point, it is not as accurate in scoring an individual student. And a teacher wants to know exactly how each student is doing. Tate advises teachers and school leaders who are considering using an AI essay grader to ask specific questions about accuracy rates on the student level:\u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">What is the rate of exact agreement between the AI grader and a human rater on each essay? How often are they within one-point of each other?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The next step in Tate’s research is to study whether student writing improves after having an essay graded by ChatGPT. She’d like teachers to try using ChatGPT to score a first draft and then see if it encourages revisions, which are critical for improving writing. 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"content": "\u003cp class=\"p1\">Imagine interacting with an avatar that dissolves into tears – and being assessed on how intelligently and empathetically you respond to its emotional display.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">Or taking a math test that is created for you on the spot, the questions written to be responsive to the strengths and weaknesses you’ve displayed in prior answers. 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But AI could help put such tests within reach for students and schools around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">AI-driven tests could also do a better job of assessing \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/46781/three-tools-for-teaching-critical-thinking-and-problem-solving-skills\">students’ problem-solving abilities\u003c/a> and other skills, he said. It might prompt students when they’d made a mistake and nudge them toward a better way of approaching a problem. AI-powered tests could evaluate students on their \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61361/using-poetry-to-sharpen-students-claims-for-argument-writing\">ability to craft an argument\u003c/a> and persuade a chatbot. And they could help tailor tests to a student’s specific cultural and educational context.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">“One of the biggest problems that PISA has is when we’re testing students in Singapore, in sub-Saharan Africa, it’s a completely different universe. 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(Big test makers like Pearson are already doing this, he said.)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"li3\">It’s considering whether AI could score tests. According to Piacentini, there’s promising evidence that AI can accurately and effectively score even relatively complex student work.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli class=\"li3\">Perhaps most significantly,\u003cb> \u003c/b>the organization is exploring how AI could help create tests that are “much more interesting and much more authentic,” as Piacentini puts it.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">When it comes to using AI to design tests, there are all sorts of opportunities. Career and tech students could be assessed on their practical skills via AI-driven simulations: For example, automotive students could participate in a simulation testing their ability to fix a car, Piacentini said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"p3\">Right now those hands-on tests are incredibly intensive and costly – “it’s almost like shooting a movie,” Piacentini said. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teens’ focus is interrupted, on average, every 90 seconds. Something as simple as an audible notification can draw focus away from a task. And when humans are distracted, it takes 23 minutes to get back to that previous level of focus. In schools, that means that in a 55-minute class period, multiple distractions across the classroom create an almost impossible task of staying on topic and focused. “When you toggle between two things, you lose cognitive energy and it takes a lot longer to get into deep focus,” said school psychologist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@thrivingstudents\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebecca Branstetter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Teens “don’t realize that multitasking is neurologically impossible.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Branstetter recently spoke at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.learningandthebrain.com/conference-514/teaching-engaged-brains/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning and The Brain: Teaching Engaged Brains\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conference in San Francisco, where she cited the above statistics from the book \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://stolenfocusbook.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stolen Focus\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Johann Hari. When Branstetter asked about challenges with screens in the classroom, the audience of teachers shouted out familiar student behaviors, including: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">playing games during a lesson,\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">denying their phone was out when it was visible and\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing up tired from scrolling all night long.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These distractions aren’t only frustrating for educators, research shows they reduce cognitive efficiency. Because social media is designed to keep users engaged for long periods of time, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48315/why-executive-function-skills-take-so-long-to-fully-develop\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kids and teens are still learning executive function skills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it’s important for parents and teachers to set boundaries and serve as tech mentors, she said. “Willpower alone is not enough. You have to require that environment to set the stage for how to help kids prioritize and focus.” In her talk and a follow-up interview with MindShift, Branstetter offered 10 tips and hacks to help boost teen’s executive function skills and manage screen time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>1. See tech as a tool\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Technology is like a hammer, said Branstetter. “It’s a tool, and you can use it to create beautiful things and you can create to destroy things. It depends on how you use it.” Adults can help to empower kids to see tech as a tool by encouraging them to find an app or tech tool that will address a specific challenge they are facing. If a teen is dealing with anxiety, for example, they can test out a few meditation apps and report back to the adult.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Branstetter also pointed out that there are apps that block the most searched websites on a device for a period of time, which can be useful for a student having a hard time focusing on tasks for extended periods of time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>2. Coach through task initiation\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Task initiation is one of the big \u003ca href=\"https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-executive-function-and-how-does-it-relate-to-child-development/\">executive function skills\u003c/a> that are interrupted by technology and cell phone use, according to Branstetter. Adults might assume that stopping a previous task is an obvious precursor to initiating a new task, but kids and teens might need more explicit instruction to develop that sequencing habit. This can look like asking students what needs to be done in order to start a specific task. Students might suggest that phones need to go away and that they need to pull out necessary materials to perform the new task at hand. According to Branstetter, this is an important practice in self-awareness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>3. Probe for the feelings behind phone distractions\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Impulse control is another executive function skill that teens are developing. If a student is having trouble refraining from looking at their phone when initiating a new task, it can help to encourage quick mindful reflection. An adult can ask a teen, “What is it that’s making you go on your phone?” and suggest some feelings like anxiety or boredom that they might identify with. Then the adult and teen can create a quick plan for stopping phone use at that moment and refocusing on the more immediate task.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>4. Try the scrunchie trick or airplane mode\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Putting a scrunchie over the front camera prevents smartphone facial recognition from effortlessly unlocking aphone. Branstetter recommended guiding teens to use that moment when the phone doesn’t unlock for a mental check-in: “Why am I checking this? How do I feel?” If the scrunchie method doesn’t work, Branstetter suggested teaching teens to use airplane mode during a time when phone distractions are unwelcome.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>5. Take advantage of A.I.\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are also some useful A.I. tools for teens who might struggle with task breakdown and completion. Branstetter recommended \u003ca href=\"https://goblin.tools/About\">Goblin Tools\u003c/a>, which takes a prompt like “I have to write a five-page paper on Mesopotamia,” and creates a checklist with the steps that a student might need to do to complete the assignment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>6. Use a focus timer\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/51765/procrastinating-still-how-a-tomato-timer-can-help-you-stop-putting-things-off\">Pomodoro technique\u003c/a>, which uses 25-minute bursts of focused time with breaks in between, has been a useful tool for the teens that Branstetter works with. She also recommended \u003ca href=\"https://www.forestapp.cc/\">Forest\u003c/a>, which can be downloaded as a smartphone app or used as a Chrome extension. Forest helps users track their focus time with a visual reminder of focus as a tree slowly grows on the screen, as well as real-world incentive. When a user completes a certain amount of focus time, without distraction, a real tree is planted through Forest app’s partner, Trees For The Future.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>7. Create a tech contract\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/sites/default/files/featured-content/files/common_sense_family_media_agreement.pdf\">Tech agreements\u003c/a> or contracts, allow teachers or parents to \u003ca href=\"https://www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/heres-real-proof-that-a-cellphone-contract-works\">collaborate with young people on expectations\u003c/a> for technology. One aspect of a tech agreement can be determining where the technology “hot spots” and “cold spots” are in the classroom or home. By predetermining where technology is expected to be used or not to be used, students have a better chance at applying their learned executive functioning and anticipatory thinking skills. 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Encourage future thinking\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Future planning is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/50947/how-reverse-planning-for-goals-can-help-students-succeed-in-school\">also a learned executive function skill\u003c/a>. “Because motivation is the ability to see a positive emotion of the future … we need to help kids do a future sketch,” said Branstetter. Helping students visualize what it might look like and feel like in the future to complete a task will help them with anticipatory thinking.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Branstetter likes doing a future sketch that she calls a “movie in your mind.” For example, if a teacher notices a student on their phone when they should be completing a math task, they might say something like this: “Here’s the movie that is playing in my mind right now. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teens’ focus is interrupted, on average, every 90 seconds. Something as simple as an audible notification can draw focus away from a task. And when humans are distracted, it takes 23 minutes to get back to that previous level of focus. In schools, that means that in a 55-minute class period, multiple distractions across the classroom create an almost impossible task of staying on topic and focused. “When you toggle between two things, you lose cognitive energy and it takes a lot longer to get into deep focus,” said school psychologist \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.tiktok.com/@thrivingstudents\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rebecca Branstetter\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Teens “don’t realize that multitasking is neurologically impossible.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Branstetter recently spoke at the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.learningandthebrain.com/conference-514/teaching-engaged-brains/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning and The Brain: Teaching Engaged Brains\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> conference in San Francisco, where she cited the above statistics from the book \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://stolenfocusbook.com/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stolen Focus\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> by Johann Hari. When Branstetter asked about challenges with screens in the classroom, the audience of teachers shouted out familiar student behaviors, including: \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">playing games during a lesson,\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">denying their phone was out when it was visible and\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">showing up tired from scrolling all night long.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">These distractions aren’t only frustrating for educators, research shows they reduce cognitive efficiency. Because social media is designed to keep users engaged for long periods of time, and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/48315/why-executive-function-skills-take-so-long-to-fully-develop\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kids and teens are still learning executive function skills\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, it’s important for parents and teachers to set boundaries and serve as tech mentors, she said. “Willpower alone is not enough. You have to require that environment to set the stage for how to help kids prioritize and focus.” In her talk and a follow-up interview with MindShift, Branstetter offered 10 tips and hacks to help boost teen’s executive function skills and manage screen time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>1. See tech as a tool\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Technology is like a hammer, said Branstetter. “It’s a tool, and you can use it to create beautiful things and you can create to destroy things. It depends on how you use it.” Adults can help to empower kids to see tech as a tool by encouraging them to find an app or tech tool that will address a specific challenge they are facing. If a teen is dealing with anxiety, for example, they can test out a few meditation apps and report back to the adult.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Branstetter also pointed out that there are apps that block the most searched websites on a device for a period of time, which can be useful for a student having a hard time focusing on tasks for extended periods of time.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>2. Coach through task initiation\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Task initiation is one of the big \u003ca href=\"https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/what-is-executive-function-and-how-does-it-relate-to-child-development/\">executive function skills\u003c/a> that are interrupted by technology and cell phone use, according to Branstetter. Adults might assume that stopping a previous task is an obvious precursor to initiating a new task, but kids and teens might need more explicit instruction to develop that sequencing habit. This can look like asking students what needs to be done in order to start a specific task. Students might suggest that phones need to go away and that they need to pull out necessary materials to perform the new task at hand. According to Branstetter, this is an important practice in self-awareness. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>3. Probe for the feelings behind phone distractions\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Impulse control is another executive function skill that teens are developing. If a student is having trouble refraining from looking at their phone when initiating a new task, it can help to encourage quick mindful reflection. An adult can ask a teen, “What is it that’s making you go on your phone?” and suggest some feelings like anxiety or boredom that they might identify with. Then the adult and teen can create a quick plan for stopping phone use at that moment and refocusing on the more immediate task.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>4. Try the scrunchie trick or airplane mode\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Putting a scrunchie over the front camera prevents smartphone facial recognition from effortlessly unlocking aphone. Branstetter recommended guiding teens to use that moment when the phone doesn’t unlock for a mental check-in: “Why am I checking this? How do I feel?” If the scrunchie method doesn’t work, Branstetter suggested teaching teens to use airplane mode during a time when phone distractions are unwelcome.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>5. Take advantage of A.I.\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">There are also some useful A.I. tools for teens who might struggle with task breakdown and completion. Branstetter recommended \u003ca href=\"https://goblin.tools/About\">Goblin Tools\u003c/a>, which takes a prompt like “I have to write a five-page paper on Mesopotamia,” and creates a checklist with the steps that a student might need to do to complete the assignment.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>6. 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There, the students broke into small teams and had 45 minutes to figure out if rumors a friend was passing along about a K-Pop group were true.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the exercise involved looking at sets of images of human faces to figure out which were real and which were AI-generated. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2019, the Houston Independent School District found itself entangled in a legal battle, facing a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/Federal-jury-HISD-staff-repeatedly-violated-13895634.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">verdict of $9.2 million for copyright violations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. School staff had repeatedly photocopied, manipulated and distributed study guides from an educational publishing company. This incident served as a wake-up call for teachers who thought copyright law did not apply to their classrooms. “Teachers either don’t know or don’t want to know that they’re violating copyright,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.melissaannpero.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melissa-Ann Pero\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a former language arts teacher who has also worked with educators on hybrid and online learning practices in Pennsylvania.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ensures that creators have exclusive rights to print, publish, perform, film or record their literary, artistic and musical creations – or to authorize others to do so. While many teachers willingly share their instructional materials, even those they have personally crafted, the act of sharing doesn’t negate the need for proper attribution or copyright protection. “I’ve tried to get away from using phrases like ‘I’ve stolen that from somebody,’ because I haven’t. I’ve asked to borrow it, and I give people credit,” said Pero, who now teaches at a career and technical high school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound copyright practices not only shield teachers from legal complications and safeguard their intellectual property, but also set an example for students. 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Excerpts – typically two pages or less or 10% of longer works – are permissible, along with up to 30 seconds of music. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2019, the Houston Independent School District found itself entangled in a legal battle, facing a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/education/article/Federal-jury-HISD-staff-repeatedly-violated-13895634.php\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">verdict of $9.2 million for copyright violations\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. School staff had repeatedly photocopied, manipulated and distributed study guides from an educational publishing company. This incident served as a wake-up call for teachers who thought copyright law did not apply to their classrooms. “Teachers either don’t know or don’t want to know that they’re violating copyright,” said \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.melissaannpero.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Melissa-Ann Pero\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a former language arts teacher who has also worked with educators on hybrid and online learning practices in Pennsylvania.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.copyright.gov/what-is-copyright/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Copyright\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> ensures that creators have exclusive rights to print, publish, perform, film or record their literary, artistic and musical creations – or to authorize others to do so. While many teachers willingly share their instructional materials, even those they have personally crafted, the act of sharing doesn’t negate the need for proper attribution or copyright protection. “I’ve tried to get away from using phrases like ‘I’ve stolen that from somebody,’ because I haven’t. I’ve asked to borrow it, and I give people credit,” said Pero, who now teaches at a career and technical high school.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sound copyright practices not only shield teachers from legal complications and safeguard their intellectual property, but also set an example for students. In the digital era, when information can be ambiguously sourced and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/47580/media-literacy-five-ways-teachers-are-fighting-fake-news\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">potentially misleading\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edutopia.org/article/teaching-rhetorical-analysis-news/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">teaching students the importance of proper sourcing\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> continues to grow in importance. At the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference last year, Pero and other speakers offered recommendations for how educators can navigate copyright and model digital citizenship for students.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Schools have certain protections. What are they?\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In education, copyright has its own set of rules that provide specific protections. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted work without seeking permission, serving purposes like news reporting, commentary, education, parody and the creation of transformative new works.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">However, the protective umbrella of education is not as impervious as once believed, said Pero.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Excerpts – typically two pages or less or 10% of longer works – are permissible, along with up to 30 seconds of music. 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This act provides exemptions that allow educators to share certain copyright-protected materials online with students without getting permission from copyright holders. Generally, the TEACH Act mandates that distribution of all materials must be limited to students who are currently enrolled in the class for a specific time. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Digital citizenship and nurturing respect for copyright\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Citing sources and giving credit are integral components of digital citizenship — how we conduct ourselves responsibly in the online world. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. It’s audible proof that a student is paying attention and not drifting off, research suggests. More importantly, the more a student articulates his or her reasoning, the easier it is for a tutor to correct misunderstandings or praise a breakthrough. Those are the moments when learning happens.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One India-based tutoring company, Cuemath, trains its tutors to encourage students to talk more. Its tutors are in India, but many of its clients are American families with elementary school children. 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Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, the researchers could separate the audio of the tutors from that of the students and calculate the ratio of tutor-to-student speech.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62976\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62976\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"751\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image1.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image1-160x154.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image1-768x739.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. \u003ccite>(Source: Figure 2 of Demszky et. al. “Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.”)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In initial pilot tests, the talk meter was posted on the tutor’s video screen for the entire one-hour tutoring session, but tutors found that too distracting. The study was revised so that the meter pops up every 20 minutes or three times during the session. When the student is talking less than 25% of the time, the meter goes red, indicating that improvement is needed. When the student is talking more than half the time, the meter turns green. In between, it’s yellow. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">More than 700 tutors and 1,200 of their students were randomly assigned to one of three groups: one where the tutors were shown the talk meter, another where both tutors and students were shown the talk meter, and a third control group which wasn’t shown the talk meter at all for comparison.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When just the tutors saw the talk meter, they tended to curtail their explanations and talk much less. But despite their efforts to prod their tutees to talk more, students increased their talking only by 7%. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When students were also shown the talk meter, the dynamic changed. Students increased their talking by 18%. Introverts especially started speaking up, according to interviews with the tutors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3-160x169.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3-768x811.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of the talk meter shown to tutors every 20 minutes during the tutoring session. \u003ccite>(Source: Figure 2 of Demszky et. al. “Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? 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It is slated to be presented at the March 2024 annual conference of the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.solaresearch.org/events/lak/lak24/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Society of Learning Analytics\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in Kyoto, Japan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In analyzing the sound files, Demszky noticed that students tended to work on their practice problems with the tutor more silently in both the control and tutor-only talk meter groups. But students started to verbalize their steps aloud once they saw the talk meter. Students were filling more of the silences.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In interviews with the researchers, students said the meter made the tutoring session feel like a game. One student said, “It’s like a competition. 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Introverts especially started speaking up, according to interviews with the tutors. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_62974\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 780px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-62974\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"780\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3.png 780w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3-160x169.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/23/2024/01/image3-768x811.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of the talk meter shown to tutors every 20 minutes during the tutoring session. \u003ccite>(Source: Figure 2 of Demszky et. al. “Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the beginning of each year, researcher and adjunct professor Keith Benson used to pose a question to his high school students in Camden, New Jersey: “Why are you here?” They usually answered with a predictable chorus: to get an education and get a good job. However, the pathway from education to career may not be so straightforward. According to Benson’s\u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/12/5/357\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> research\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which analyzes historical trends, policies and reforms in education, high schools do not adequately prepare students for the realities of tomorrow’s workplaces. Schools emphasize to students that if you get a diploma or degree, “there will be occupational opportunities awaiting you on the other side,” said Benson, who taught high school social studies for 13 years in Camden City School District before becoming an adjunct professor at Rutgers University-Camden. Benson added that it’s common for recent college graduates to end up working in positions that do not require a degree. According to the New York Federal Reserve,\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:underemployment\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">40% of recent graduates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> were employed in roles that do not typically require a college degree in 2023. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.buffalo.edu/black-history-ed/programs/conference.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Black History Conference\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hosted by the University at Buffalo last summer, Benson brought attention to shortcomings in the current approach to college and career preparation, notably its failure to adequately prepare Black and Latino students for an often unpredictable job market. He said that being real with students about workplace discrimination and economic trends can better prepare young people for their futures after high school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Discuss workplace discrimination\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If schools aim to prepare students for today’s workplace, they need to discuss racism and discrimination in hiring practices, according to Benson, who pointed out that there has been almost \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/01/racial-discrimination-in-hiring-remains-a-persistent-problem-northwestern-study/?fj=1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no change in job discrimination since 1968\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Black and Latino students are likely to face challenges in the job market that limit their access to social networks, opportunities and promotions. “Job discrimination, racial bias — it exists throughout the hiring process, even down to details like your name and address, irrespective of your educational achievements,” Benson said. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes-get-more-interviews\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One study by Harvard Business School\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> found that Black and Asian students who “whitened” their resumes by taking out references to their race were twice as likely to get interview callbacks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While workplaces need to be pushed to address discriminatory hiring practices, Benson said that high school teachers have a role to play as well. He implored educators to cover the reality of workplace discrimination in their classrooms or college and career centers by sharing recent research. “What we can’t do is ignore it and not be honest with students about what to expect and where the problems lie going forward,” Benson said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ana Homayoun, an early career development expert and author of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://anahomayoun.com/erasing-the-finish-line/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said that educators can \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62734/when-parents-only-focus-on-college-admissions-essential-skills-can-slip-through-the-cracks\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">support students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from marginalized identities by proactively providing resources and support. “Our role as sponsors is really important,” said Homayoun. “That’s a term that I use to describe this idea of creating opportunities for economic growth.” She added that sponsorship includes identifying students that might be facing barriers and leveraging one’s network to give them a leg up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Prepare students to navigate an unpredictable job market\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though educational attainment in the U.S. has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20about%2037.7%20percent,population%20had%20graduated%20from%20college.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">risen significantly in the past decade\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, recent college graduates are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/19/college-grads-unemployed-jobs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more likely to be unemployed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. The \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:unemployment\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">latest data from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> shows that recent graduates’ unemployment rate is 4.4%, which is higher than the overall joblessness rate and almost double the rate for all college graduates. According to Benson, one contributing factor is that hiring has been undercut by \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/05/why-some-remote-jobs-are-disappearing-while-others-are-hiring-like-crazy.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">corporations seeking cheaper labor abroad\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. “The profit margins are far greater offshore due to a more deregulated economy, allowing for significantly lower labor costs. Environmental regulations, which impact profit, are also less stringent,” he explained. This trend isn’t confined to blue collar jobs. Technology companies, such as IBM, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/business/ibm-shifts-center-of-gravity-half-a-world-away-to-india/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have moved\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> skilled technology jobs overseas to access cheaper labor. Benson urged educators to include topics like offshoring, automation and artificial intelligence in their high school curriculum. For example, students should know that researchers estimate that \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.gao.gov/blog/which-workers-are-most-affected-automation-and-what-could-help-them-get-new-jobs#:~:text=Researchers%20estimate%20that%20anywhere%20from,automation%20will%20affect%20the%20workforce.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">9% to 47% of jobs could be lost to automation\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in the future. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">STEM has often been touted as a surefire path to jobs after college, and the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/828915/number-of-stem-degrees-awarded-in-the-us-by-degree-level/#:~:text=In%20the%20school%20year%202020,technology%2C%20engineering%2C%20and%20mathematics.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">number of students majoring in STEM has risen in response\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. However, U.S. universities produce more STEM graduates than \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://issues.org/stem-workforce-shortage-data-hira/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the number of new jobs projected\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> in those fields over the next ten years. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cew.georgetown.edu/about-us/staff/nicole-smith-2/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Nicole Smith\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a research professor and chief economist at the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce who co-authored a 2023 \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://cew.georgetown.edu/cew-reports/projections2031/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">report on job projections through 2031\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said that while STEM jobs may be contracting, on average STEM graduates make more money than other majors. Smith cautioned against chasing the highest paying industry because things are always changing. “The challenge is to figure out not only what you like and what you’re good at, but what is in demand for the marketplace,” she said. She added that jobs that require a human touch, like doctoring, teaching, nursing and psychiatry are unlikely to be outsourced or automated.\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Redefine why college is important\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Given uncertain job prospects, young people may wonder if college – and \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62829/government-efforts-to-erase-student-loan-debt-have-now-reached-3-6-million-borrowers\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the debt that often comes with it\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> – is worth it. Smith acknowledged that a person can do well in today’s labor market with only a high school diploma. “We have a very tight labor market that’s sucking up as much labor as it can,” she said. But that won’t always be the case. “The moment that momentum slows, then the first out are those who don’t have the postsecondary education and training… You don’t want to be left without a chair when the music stops.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The report that Smith co-authored projects that 72% of jobs will require postsecondary education or training and 42% of all jobs will require at least a bachelor’s degree. For example, an auto mechanic might have only needed a high school diploma 30 years ago, but today’s auto mechanics likely need more. “When the check engine light comes on, it’s a computer that tells you what’s up,” said Smith. 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Schools emphasize to students that if you get a diploma or degree, “there will be occupational opportunities awaiting you on the other side,” said Benson, who taught high school social studies for 13 years in Camden City School District before becoming an adjunct professor at Rutgers University-Camden. Benson added that it’s common for recent college graduates to end up working in positions that do not require a degree. According to the New York Federal Reserve,\u003c/span> \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorkfed.org/research/college-labor-market#--:explore:underemployment\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">40% of recent graduates\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> were employed in roles that do not typically require a college degree in 2023. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://ed.buffalo.edu/black-history-ed/programs/conference.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Teaching Black History Conference\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> hosted by the University at Buffalo last summer, Benson brought attention to shortcomings in the current approach to college and career preparation, notably its failure to adequately prepare Black and Latino students for an often unpredictable job market. He said that being real with students about workplace discrimination and economic trends can better prepare young people for their futures after high school. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Discuss workplace discrimination\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">If schools aim to prepare students for today’s workplace, they need to discuss racism and discrimination in hiring practices, according to Benson, who pointed out that there has been almost \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/01/racial-discrimination-in-hiring-remains-a-persistent-problem-northwestern-study/?fj=1\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">no change in job discrimination since 1968\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Black and Latino students are likely to face challenges in the job market that limit their access to social networks, opportunities and promotions. “Job discrimination, racial bias — it exists throughout the hiring process, even down to details like your name and address, irrespective of your educational achievements,” Benson said. \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/minorities-who-whiten-job-resumes-get-more-interviews\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">One study by Harvard Business School\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> found that Black and Asian students who “whitened” their resumes by taking out references to their race were twice as likely to get interview callbacks. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">While workplaces need to be pushed to address discriminatory hiring practices, Benson said that high school teachers have a role to play as well. He implored educators to cover the reality of workplace discrimination in their classrooms or college and career centers by sharing recent research. “What we can’t do is ignore it and not be honest with students about what to expect and where the problems lie going forward,” Benson said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ana Homayoun, an early career development expert and author of \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://anahomayoun.com/erasing-the-finish-line/\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, said that educators can \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62734/when-parents-only-focus-on-college-admissions-essential-skills-can-slip-through-the-cracks\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">support students\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from marginalized identities by proactively providing resources and support. “Our role as sponsors is really important,” said Homayoun. “That’s a term that I use to describe this idea of creating opportunities for economic growth.” She added that sponsorship includes identifying students that might be facing barriers and leveraging one’s network to give them a leg up.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Prepare students to navigate an unpredictable job market\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though educational attainment in the U.S. has \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.statista.com/statistics/184260/educational-attainment-in-the-us/#:~:text=In%202021%2C%20about%2037.7%20percent,population%20had%20graduated%20from%20college.\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">risen significantly in the past decade\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, recent college graduates are \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/11/19/college-grads-unemployed-jobs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">more likely to be unemployed\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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It’s a long, arduous process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, some researchers say an artificial intelligence tool may be able to help admissions officers sort through essays and recognize prospective students who might previously have gone unrecognized.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The application is a long way off from actually being used in the admissions process, but the group that includes researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder say it has the ability to pull out key traits of students, such as leadership qualities or the ability to persevere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The possible use of AI in admissions, however, raises questions about how universities would responsibly use it, especially because college admissions officers have said essays might carry more weight \u003ca href=\"https://www.chalkbeat.org/colorado/2023/6/29/23778437/affirmative-action-supreme-court-colorado-colleges/\">in the wake of the Supreme Court decision eliminating the use of race-based admissions\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sidney D’Mello, a CU Boulder professor in the Institute of Cognitive Science and Department of Computer Science who helped develop the system, said he and fellow researchers want to emphasize the responsible use of AI, including calling for transparency in how admissions decisions would be made.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re certainly very, very firm on the fact that it’s really what we call human-centered AI,” he said, “where the human is really the one making the decisions” and the AI acts as a tool.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To develop the AI tool, D’Mello and researchers from the University of Pennsylvania used more than 300,000 anonymous, 150-word essays submitted to colleges in 2008 and 2009. 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She could see how AI systems might appeal to school officials who have to sort through thousands to tens of thousands of essays with only limited staff to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>AJ Alvero, a computational sociologist at the University of Florida who focuses on language, ethnicity, culture, and education, and who wasn’t involved in the study, but reviewed it at the request of Chalkbeat, said the researchers do a great job keeping the ethical issues of bias at the forefront of their study.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Getting to a point where universities could use AI systems might be a long way away, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A technical concern here could be, if and when universities adopt these tools, are they considering how student language is changing?” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said universities would need to put accountability measures in place if there are errors and have staff on hand, such as a computer scientist, to handle any potential problems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alvero said schools would also benefit students by allowing more transparency in the application process. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">With AI tools becoming increasingly accessible and advanced, many teachers are worried about \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/62317/how-easy-is-it-to-fool-chatgpt-detectors\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">how to catch cheaters\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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These tools could save teachers time while ensuring well-structured assessments.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003cb>Personalize learning with ChatGPT and Brisk\u003c/b>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://chat.openai.com/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">ChatGPT\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an AI-driven language model, meaning it generates human-like writing. “I think the first thing that people are getting wrong is that it is just a \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61098/worried-about-chatgpt-and-cheating-here-are-4-things-teachers-should-know\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">tool for cheating\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">,” said Bacon, who believes ChatGPT has more to offer. 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[We can] use a tool that’ll pick up the things that we know how to do, but we don’t have the time.” She joked about how AI tools are like a personal assistant. “I’m looking at it as a tool to do my legwork,” said Bacon. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bacon cautioned that the companies that create AI tools may not be attuned to student privacy laws like \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www2.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">FERPA\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> or \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/rules/childrens-online-privacy-protection-rule-coppa\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">COPPA\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, so teachers should reach out to decision makers in their school district to ensure they are following \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/61098/worried-about-chatgpt-and-cheating-here-are-4-things-teachers-should-know\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">guidelines around third-party services and privacy\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. 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And then a teacher can go in and really make the modifications and make it specific to the students in front of them,” said Bacon.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Similarly, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.questionwell.org/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">QuestionWell\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is an AI-driven platform that analyzes learning objectives and generates high-quality assessment questions in various languages. 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