Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog post titled “Artificial Intelligence and Assessment.” In that piece I presented the idea of using artificial intelligence (AI) as a brainstorming tool to help create digital assessments. In this post, I am going to dive deeper into the reason for assessment: the information, or data, we gain from it. If we can use AI to help create assessments, can we use AI to help utilize the data we collect from said assessments?
In a master’s course taught by Brittany Dillman, professor at Michigan State University, I used the AI model ChatGPT to create a digital assessment. I edited and supplemented the assessment as needed to fit my context as a 3rd grade teacher. I prompted the AI model to create an assessment for main idea and key details by first generating an informational passage. Following the creation of the passage and assessment, I prompted ChatGPT to provide “total score” feedback to my students. ChatGPT assigned each portion of the assessment a number of points and the cumulative number of points a student earned on the assessment was their “total score.”
Intrigued by the information the AI model had provided, I prompted it to “explain what [it] would do with the data [it] collected from the assessment.” First, the program provided a disclaimer, stating that “as an AI language model, I don't directly collect data or have access to personal information. However, I can provide guidance on how a teacher might handle the data collected from the assessment." This statement is a reminder of the limitations of AI. I was both surprised and impressed by the list of possible uses of data that ChatGPT suggested.
Although the list of potential uses for data is not groundbreaking, the list provoked me to consider the other uses I can gain from this prompt. For each of the nine suggestions made by ChatGPT, these are potential prompts I can submit to the model to bring these ideas to life.
1. Analyze Individual and Group Performance: Most of my students struggled to find the main idea, what is another activity I can give them to help solidify that skill?
2. Identify Common Misconceptions: Many of my students confused "theme" with "main idea." Craft a lesson to teach the difference between the two concepts.
3. Assess Overall Understanding: My class flew through this lesson. Create an extension activity to help enrich my students' understanding of main idea.
4. Inform Instructional Planning: Some of my students struggled to find key details. Can you create a lesson for our next unit on sequencing that reviews finding key details in a passage?
5. Provide Individualized Feedback: Can you craft feedback to a student who was unable to find the main idea of the passage but understood the theme?
6. Monitor Progress Over Time: It's been a while since I gave a main idea assessment. Craft a review lesson to see how much of the information my students have retained.
7. Adapt Teaching Strategies: Many of my students struggled with the concept of echolocation. Can you incorporate echolocation into a compare and contrast lesson?
8. Share Insights with Parents or Guardians: Craft an email letting a parent know that their student was unable to find the main idea in this assessment.
9. Celebrate Achievements: Create a list of possible celebrations for the class performing well on this assessment.
The possibilities provided by ChatGPT and other AI models are not limitless, but they are endless. If you have not yet dipped your toes into the world of AI, I suggest you hop off my blog and go now! See what ideas you can generate with your brainstorm buddy, ChatGPT.
Reference
OpenAI. (2023). ChatGPT (3.5 version) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
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