Description: | AI tools such as ChatGPT have thrown immense challenges for assessment in higher education. This project will examine how Chinese international students at UQ for whom English is an additional language produce written assignments using English and Chinese and various language learning models and technological resources. Their writing practices will help better understand the use of AI and suggest its implications for assessment in higher education. This knowledge and understanding will also be useful in dealing with academic misconduct issues. The project will involve working closely with the target students and interact with them to learn how they use various AI tools for assessment works. This engagement may take the form of one-to-one and/or group interviews in face-to-face and/or online modes. This engagement will generate insights into what tools they use, how and how frequently and why. It is assumed that given the prevailing sense of linguistic insecurity among some of these students, they rely on online translation tools. The translation work may fall outside the scope of institutional language policy which exclusively focuses on English. Other students may have developed good practices of AI use which can be recorded and shared among the student community. |
Expected outcomes and deliverables: | Scholars will develop various skills and insights from their participation. First, they will have an understanding of how AI tools are used by students. Second, they will learn how to interview participants and collect data. Third, they will understand how ethics relates to research, what ethical rules and principles govern an ethics application and how to apply for ethics. They will work with other scholars and the supervisor to generate publications based on the data that they will be collecting as part of the project. |
