AI assessment project

01 Feb 2023

What do you think about the use of AI in assessment in Higher Education?

Prof Andy Brass and Fran Hooley are heading up a project team exploring the attitudes and perceptions to the use of AI in assessment in Higher Education.  The University-wide study has recently been signed off by the ethics and aims to consult groups of students, staff and employers in order to answer the following three questions:

1. What factors influence perceptions of fairness in the use of AI in assessment?

2. How might AI be acceptable in different forms of assessment (i.e. formative and summative)?

3. How might AI and assessment impact a student's transition to, and performance in, the professional workplace?

The project will be in three phases, starting with a realist review of the literature on AI and assessment in phase one.  Interviews and workshops with members of the three groups mentioned above will be the focus for phase two and the final phase will trial some AI tools in a variety of courses to evaluate the attitudes and performance of the tools.  

Get involved and share your views

We would really appreciate your participation in phase two in order to understand your thoughts and opinions on this potentially transformational topic. There are two parts to this phase. These are:

1. Interview via zoom : If you would like to be interviewed it will take approximately 45 minutes to an 1 hour and will be conducted on zoom.  Your answers will be transcribed and anonymised to inform the materials in the workshop

2. Online activity and campus workshop: You will complete a short (20 – 30 minutes) task individually online and then attend a workshop which will last for about 1 hour 30 minutes.  

The outcomes from the whole project will be summarised in a report to inform potential teaching and learning strategies across the institution. 

Next steps

Please register your interest with Frances.hooley@manchester.ac.uk  for the interviews and/or workshops