There were few things worse for elementary school students in Texas than the annual STAAR testing. Some may remember them as the TAAS, others the TAKS.
A week of testing to determine their academic achievement and knowledge and anyone who took it knows what an absolute beating they were to take.
We can't imagine what it would have been like to grade them.
Now, that task is being handed off to growing foe a lot of workers now face: AI. Yes, artificial intelligence has now infiltrated the public school system.
According to KXAN, the state will save more than $15 million by using technology similar to ChatGPT to give initial scores, reducing the number of human graders needed.
However, the decision to use AI caught some teachers by surprise. Kevin Brown, the executive director for the Texas Association of School Administrators and a former superintendent at Alamo Heights ISD, said, "There ought to be some consensus about, hey, this is a good thing, or not a good thing, a fair thing or not a fair thing."
We've already seen teachers and professors use ChatGPT to try and find plagiarism in essays to mixed results; some essays are coming back marked as completely plagiarized when that's not the case.
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