Artificial intelligence is becoming a challenge for schools. In Hamburg, high school graduates are said to have cheated with ChatGPT, in Bavaria a teachers’ association is calling for the abandonment of classic grading.
With the advance of artificial intelligence (AI), the Bavarian Teachers’ Association (BLLV) is calling for a reform of the classic grading system – and fast.
“I believe that the rapid development of the AI does not allow us to slowly develop the performance evaluation. We have to realize that our performance system is old school,” said BLLV President Simone Fleischmann of the German Press Agency in Munich.
On Friday it became known that some Hamburg students are suspected of having cheated in exams for the Abitur with the help of programs with artificial intelligence and of having used ChatGPT. According to the Ministry of Education, there are no such suspected cases in school-leaving exams in Bavaria.
Skepticism from Bavaria’s Minister of Education
“The way our school system works, the system logic, is now reaching its limit. That has to do with the fact that we just stood still,” criticized Fleischmann. “We still want to select, sort out, give grades. But in future we have to judge the processes and not the result.”
Bavaria’s Minister of Education is skeptical about the demand. Michael Piazolo (Free Voters) does not want to do without grades at school in the future either. “I believe that we need grades and that many students want grades too. You need proof of performance to know for yourself how you stand in the individual subjects,” he told the German Press Agency on Saturday.
The Association of German Secondary School Teachers (VDR) doesn’t think much of the demand either: “Grades and AI are mutually exclusive? The logic behind this supposed statement is not clear,” said VDR Federal Chairman Jürgen Böhm. “Only because digital devices were not checked during exams in Hamburg should grades be abolished? At least since the graphics-capable calculator, it has been the responsibility of the ministries and ultimately teachers to take special precautions during exams.”
Source: Stern
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