Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Do Grades Make Sense In The AI Era?
Tech & Learning: I’ve always been uncomfortable with the grading part of being a professor. As a student, I loved learning, particularly writing, but dreaded the judgment of an instructor and the harsh disapproval of their red pen. When I started teaching, grading was my least favorite part of the job. I’d obsess over minor discrepancies and second-guess myself constantly.
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I’ve been thinking lately about how dependent some students have become on AI, especially with writing assignments. I think a lot of what tempts students to use AI is that education has become so focused on numeric grades and less on learning. I think a lot of people think that if grading is harsher, students might be less inclined to use AI. However, this article made me wonder if getting rid of grading altogether would decrease the amount of AI usage. If educators do not give numeric grades, then by using AI students aren’t gaining anything, they’re only inhibiting their learning. There is the question though of how we ensure students in pre-professional fields have actually gained the knowledge they need, and for that we could implement some sort of summary assessment, however that means that your success falls all on one assignment or test, which is also nonideal. Overall though, I do think we need to recenter students’ motivations on actually learning and not on achieving numeric grades.
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