Testing the Ability of Teachers and Students to Differentiate between Essays Generated by ChatGPT and High School Students
Table 1
Summary of AI Attitude Assessment Prompts.
Measure
Prompt
Response options
Estimated cheating
Assuming ChatGPT is freely available, what percent of high school students in the United States would ask ChatGPT to write an essay for them and submit it?
0% to 100%
Concern
How concerned are you about ChatGPT having negative effects on education?
0 = not at all concerned to 100 = extremely concerned
Optimism
How optimistic are you about ChatGPT having positive benefits for education?
0 = not at all optimistic to 100 = extremely optimistic
Comments
(Optional) Do you have any comments? You are welcome to explain your thoughts about any of the above questions.
An open-ended text box
Evaluation of uses
Please rate how good or bad the following actions would be, in your personal opinion.
-10 = really bad to 0 = neutral to +10 = really good
(e.g., a student uses ChatGPT to write an essay for them and submits the directly generated answer)
Note: quantitative responses were made using a slider.