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Auteurs principaux: Zhang, Mike, Lindsay, Euan D, Thorbensen, Frederik Bode, Poulsen, Danny Bøgsted, Bjerva, Johannes
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Publié: 2024
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author Zhang, Mike
Lindsay, Euan D
Thorbensen, Frederik Bode
Poulsen, Danny Bøgsted
Bjerva, Johannes
author_facet Zhang, Mike
Lindsay, Euan D
Thorbensen, Frederik Bode
Poulsen, Danny Bøgsted
Bjerva, Johannes
contents End of semester student evaluations of teaching are the dominant mechanism for providing feedback to academics on their teaching practice. For large classes, however, the volume of feedback makes these tools impractical for this purpose. This paper explores the use of open-source generative AI to synthesise factual, actionable and appropriate summaries of student feedback from these survey responses. In our setup, we have 742 student responses ranging over 75 courses in a Computer Science department. For each course, we synthesise a summary of the course evaluations and actionable items for the instructor. Our results reveal a promising avenue for enhancing teaching practices in the classroom setting. Our contribution lies in demonstrating the feasibility of using generative AI to produce insightful feedback for teachers, thus providing a cost-effective means to support educators' development. Overall, our work highlights the possibility of using generative AI to produce factual, actionable, and appropriate feedback for teachers in the classroom setting.
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spellingShingle Leveraging Large Language Models for Actionable Course Evaluation Student Feedback to Lecturers
Zhang, Mike
Lindsay, Euan D
Thorbensen, Frederik Bode
Poulsen, Danny Bøgsted
Bjerva, Johannes
Computers and Society
Computation and Language
End of semester student evaluations of teaching are the dominant mechanism for providing feedback to academics on their teaching practice. For large classes, however, the volume of feedback makes these tools impractical for this purpose. This paper explores the use of open-source generative AI to synthesise factual, actionable and appropriate summaries of student feedback from these survey responses. In our setup, we have 742 student responses ranging over 75 courses in a Computer Science department. For each course, we synthesise a summary of the course evaluations and actionable items for the instructor. Our results reveal a promising avenue for enhancing teaching practices in the classroom setting. Our contribution lies in demonstrating the feasibility of using generative AI to produce insightful feedback for teachers, thus providing a cost-effective means to support educators' development. Overall, our work highlights the possibility of using generative AI to produce factual, actionable, and appropriate feedback for teachers in the classroom setting.
title Leveraging Large Language Models for Actionable Course Evaluation Student Feedback to Lecturers
topic Computers and Society
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01274