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c/automation-anxietytararosstaraross1mo agoProlific Poster

Can we talk about using AI to grade papers and the weird guilt that comes with it?

My tip is to run the AI scores but then read a few yourself to check... It helps balance speed with knowing you didn't just trust a machine with a kid's work.
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riley866
riley8661mo ago
Spot checking sounds good but it's still letting a robot make the first call on a kid's effort. That personal story the AI missed? What about all the other papers where a small human moment gets overlooked because it wasn't in the spot check batch. Grading should be about understanding each student's path, not just checking a box for most of them. It starts to feel less like teaching and more like quality control on an assembly line.
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andrew_campbell
Your tip to run AI scores but then read a few yourself CHANGED my mind. I used to think using AI for grading was just taking the easy way out. But after trying it, I found that spot-checking let me catch things the AI missed, like a student's personal story that the machine didn't value. Now it feels like a smart helper, not a replacement, and that weird guilt is mostly gone.
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zarak46
zarak461mo ago
Still seems like outsourcing the hard part. If you're only spot-checking, most papers get judged by a machine that can't really read. Kinda defeats the purpose of having a teacher grade them.
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tessa_morgan
Spot-checking? I let my phone auto-fill forms, so...
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