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Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have the potential to enhance learning, teaching, and assessment by providing AI-generated feedback to students. This study used five different AI plug-ins and four different knowledge bases for the optimization of feedback in classroom formative assessments. The sample consisted of 26 students and 13 teachers at five secondary schools in Norway. Interviews and unstructured observations were used to collect data. The findings indicate that AI-generated feedback is appreciated by both students and teachers. It provides immediate subject-specific, concrete, and relevant feedback. High-performing students were motivated to further improve their writing. However, some students found the feedback to be too general or complicated, and the teachers who had not conducted whole-term periodic planning struggled with using AI for formative assessment purposes. Finally, both students and teachers contend that the teacher needs to have the last word when AI takes over formative feedback procedures.

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Title
“We Should Not Be Like a Dinosaur”—Using AI Technologies to Provide Formative Feedback to Students
Author
Burner, Tony 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Lindvig, Yngve 2 ; Wærness, Jarl Inge 2 

 Department of Languages and Literature Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway, 3045 Drammen, Norway 
 Learnlab, 0164 Oslo, Norway; [email protected] (Y.L.); [email protected] (J.I.W.) 
Publication title
Volume
15
Issue
1
First page
58
Publication year
2025
Publication date
2025
Publisher
MDPI AG
Place of publication
Basel
Country of publication
Switzerland
Publication subject
e-ISSN
22277102
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
Document type
Journal Article
Publication history
 
 
Online publication date
2025-01-09
Milestone dates
2024-12-01 (Received); 2024-12-31 (Accepted)
Publication history
 
 
   First posting date
09 Jan 2025
ProQuest document ID
3159411507
Document URL
https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/we-should-not-be-like-dinosaur-using-ai/docview/3159411507/se-2?accountid=208611
Copyright
© 2025 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.
Last updated
2025-01-24
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ProQuest One Academic