While respondents are concerned about
cheating, they believe the benefits outweigh the risks
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LAKE CITY, Sept. 21, 2023 /PRNewswire/
-- Instructure, the leading learning platform and maker of
Canvas, today announced the results of a survey about the
experiences and attitudes of educators and students on generative
AI. The survey, conducted by research firm Justkul Inc., found that
while its over 1,000 respondents, comprised of students, educators
and administrators from K-12 and higher education institutions,
feel generative AI helps students understand their strengths and
weaknesses despite the fact that it is "likely used sometimes" to
cheat. Respondents feel generative AI is more helpful than harmful
and makes students feel more confident.
According to the survey, sentiment about AI is primarily
positive, with 54.5% of teachers, students and administrators
feeling either very positive or positive about the technology, with
29.9% staying neutral. While both teachers and students agree that
the biggest risk of generative AI technology is cheating in the
classroom, teachers (76.4%) are more concerned about the risk of
cheating with this technology than students (43.5%). Despite the
rapid adoption of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT in K-12 and
higher education, the survey found that over half of respondents
(57.4%) have not used AI for their schoolwork.
"The results of this survey show the majority of educators and
students are beginning to see the benefits of generative in a
classroom setting," said Ryan
Lufkin, vice president of global strategy at Instructure.
"Used correctly, this transformative technology can elevate student
success, empower educators and enhance the ways we teach and learn.
When implemented with an intentional, secure and human-driven
approach–generative AI has the power to save educators time and
promote impactful learning experiences for all."
Cheating and Generative AI
- All major groups in the survey thought passing off an AI output
as your own work without modification was a clear case of
cheating.
- Students, teachers and administrators agree that teachers
should be told when AI was used on homework.
- Using AI to help when stuck generally was not seen as cheating
by any of the groups surveyed.
Human-driven Generative AI
- Survey respondents stated they preferred human-led classes as
opposed to AI-led options.
- 41.9% of respondents were concerned about "de-humanization" as
a result of using the technology.
- Only 17.4% of teachers were concerned about job security due to
the adoption of the technology.
Generative AI Can Help Educators Teach More Efficiently and
Effectively
- The main advantage that respondents saw in using AI was to
enable them to complete their tasks more quickly and
efficiently.
- K-12 teachers and students agreed that generative AI is most
useful in science, math and English Language Arts and least useful
in social studies or learning foreign languages.
- Teachers and administrators feel AI can positively impact
learning in several key areas, the top four being multilingual
content (31.7%) cheating detection (30.1%) neurodiverse
content (29.7%) and question development (28.8%).
Eliminating Biased Responses
- Administrators (30.3%) were more concerned about bias
introduced by generative AI than students (14.4%) or teachers
(18.8%).
Where and How Generative AI is Being Used
- Students claimed the top benefits of generative AI are to help
them complete their tasks more quickly and efficiently, avoid
mistakes, avoid missing things and help generate answers.
- The survey found that generative AI seems to get more use in
K-12 than in higher education. It also seems to be more useful for
community colleges and public colleges and universities than it is
for private or denominational colleges or universities.
- Generative AI programs were more than twice as likely to have
been used outside of school than in school, with 57.4% of
respondents indicating they had not used generative AI for school
work.
- By the end of the 2023-2024 school year, roughly 30% more
people expect to have tried using generative AI for school work
than today. Roughly 50% more respondents were anticipating using it
for school work at some regular interval.
More Guidance is Needed
- Teachers and administrators agree that both schools and the
federal government must provide more guardrails when it comes to
the use of AI in schools, especially when it comes to privacy
laws.
For more information about how Instructure is approaching
generative AI technology, visit Instructure.com/AI.
SURVEY METHODOLOGY
The survey was conducted in
July and August of 2023 and was cleaned and analyzed by
Justkul Inc. The research was conducted through online
surveys with teachers, school administration officials and students
at U.S. schools, both K-12 and post-secondary. Teachers, school
administration officials and students over the age of 18 were
recruited directly. Students under the age of 18 were recruited
through their parents to ensure parental permission was obtained.
Tens of thousands of invitations were sent and pre-screened. 1648
respondents were permitted to start the survey, 90 did not complete
the qualifiers and 466 were disqualified. 60 respondents did not
complete the survey and 29 were removed after quality checks,
yielding a final sample of 1003 respondents.
ABOUT INSTRUCTURE
Instructure (NYSE:
INST) is an education technology company dedicated to
elevating student success, amplifying the power of teaching, and
inspiring everyone to learn together. Today the Instructure
Learning Platform, comprised of its flagship product
Canvas LMS and several products serving K-12 and
higher education, supports tens of millions of educators and
learners around the world. Learn more at
www.instructure.com.
CONTACT:
Brian
Watkins
Corporate
Communications
Instructure
(801)
658-7525
brian.watkins@instructure.com
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