Session 4C: AI-Enabled Grading and Feedback: Supporting Not ReplacingTeachers
Type of Session
Panel Discussion
Abstract
Teachers play a crucial role in providing students with a well-rounded education but often face challenges in fulfilling all their responsibilities. This is especially true for English instructors teaching students to write. While writing is an essential skill, assessing written work poses significant challenges. Students need formative feedback on their writing. However, teachers often struggle with heavy workload of evaluating student essays. Many teachers somewhat jokingly liken spending all weekend grading essays to ‘an English teacher’s version of hell.”
Artificial intelligence is the latest in a long line of disruptive innovations poised to reshape teaching and learning. Used properly, AI will support—not replace—teachers. While acknowledging challenges, this presentation focuses on AI’s compelling benefits, particularly for English teachers seeking to provide more effective and timely feedback on student writing. AI-enabled assessment tools, like WriteGrader.com, can be a powerful complement that elevates teaching capacity, streamlines assessment, improves feedback and frees time for human-to-human mentoring. This presentation will explore practical implementation strategies for integrating AI in the classroom, with specific emphasis on utilizing AI to assess written assignments. We’ll demonstrate how these tools can help teachers overcome traditional time and workload constraints, ultimately improving pedagogical effectiveness and student outcomes.
Session 4C: AI-Enabled Grading and Feedback: Supporting Not ReplacingTeachers
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Teachers play a crucial role in providing students with a well-rounded education but often face challenges in fulfilling all their responsibilities. This is especially true for English instructors teaching students to write. While writing is an essential skill, assessing written work poses significant challenges. Students need formative feedback on their writing. However, teachers often struggle with heavy workload of evaluating student essays. Many teachers somewhat jokingly liken spending all weekend grading essays to ‘an English teacher’s version of hell.”
Artificial intelligence is the latest in a long line of disruptive innovations poised to reshape teaching and learning. Used properly, AI will support—not replace—teachers. While acknowledging challenges, this presentation focuses on AI’s compelling benefits, particularly for English teachers seeking to provide more effective and timely feedback on student writing. AI-enabled assessment tools, like WriteGrader.com, can be a powerful complement that elevates teaching capacity, streamlines assessment, improves feedback and frees time for human-to-human mentoring. This presentation will explore practical implementation strategies for integrating AI in the classroom, with specific emphasis on utilizing AI to assess written assignments. We’ll demonstrate how these tools can help teachers overcome traditional time and workload constraints, ultimately improving pedagogical effectiveness and student outcomes.