How well can AI grade?

As an experiment, over the summer, I asked my students if they would let me put their work through artificial intelligence (AI) for feedback and a grade. Because I was using GPT within PowerNotes, a platform that doesn’t deliver students’ data to OpenAI, their work would not be used to train its large language model, and all data would be deleted after 30 days.

I told my students I would compare the AI grading and feedback with my own, and only share the AI’s reaction if they wanted to see it. I wasn’t sure if anyone would agree, but six out of 23 students said yes, and they were all curious to see what the AI had to say. I did the process using GPT-3.5 first and then GPT-4. Here’s how it played out, from creating rubrics to drawing conclusions.

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