AI and Writing-Based Assessment Forum
Over the last few months, the conversation around AI-based writing tools such as ChatGPT has grown in volume and concern over the implications for authorship, intellectual agency, the learning process, and academic integrity in educational contexts. This open forum will consider AI-based writing tools in the context of how and to what ends we assign writing-based assessments in our courses across the disciplines. While the forum will open with some initial remarks and presentation by CELT, participants are encouraged to bring their questions, ideas, and experiences to the discussion.
The forum will address issues such as:
- the nature and capabilities of AI-based writing tools (particularly in relation to writing-based assessments in a University setting)
- conveying expectations for and cultivating students' understanding of academic integrity and related issues
- assignment design for authentic, engaged, and reflective writing
- the future and purposes for writing-based assessment across the disciplines
Overall, the spirit of the forum will be to consider new (automated) writing technologies not as a crisis narrative but as a prompt to (re)assess and (re)envision how writing enables learning and knowledge-making in our fields and in the world.
Participants will be encouraged to engage in some light preparatory reading/play to get the most out of the forum:
- Read: " 'Students are using AI to write their papers, because of course they are.' " (Lori Salem and Stephanie Fiore, Temple University CAT)
- Read: "Update Your Course Syllabus for ChatGPT" (Ryan Watkins, George Washington University)
- Try: Using ChatGPT to experience how it outputs responses to various prompts relevant to your teaching and/or field (will require users to register a free account)