3.15 How Can AI Reduce the Burden of Administration for Vocational Teachers and Trainers?
Despite that education and training are highly complex processes requiring specific knowledge, skills and dispositions, the administration of these processes contains many routine activities that are susceptible to automation and AI can be very helpful in this field. Even the pedagogical work processes contain some repetitive and routine tasks related with collecting, registering and processing of data and information, where AI can be very helpful in saving the time and energy of teachers and trainers.
According to Susskind and Susskind (2015) AI helps to transform the education process by making it more flexible, individualized, updates with the high volume of new information. Intelligent tutoring systems permit to monitor and manage education and teaching process effectively by using individual learning performance data to tailor the contents and methods of teaching and alerting the teacher if an individual students require particular attention. AI can also help to computerize the assessment of learning by applying machine-grading approach, where algorithms computerize the marking process entirely.
Many projects are trying to explore the use of AI for automatic test generation and assessment by focusing to automating summative assessment, with a promise of reducing teacher workloads. Due to that high-stakes testing will be increasingly displaced by frequent low-stakes formative assessment, as the effort and cost required for assessment decreases. Current AI systems can relatively easily checked and diagnose the students homework and to support accumulated formative assessments (Tuomi, 2018).
AI could be used to objectively assess student learning by scoring test results without teacher bias. Neural AI strongly prefers large datasets and standardized testing it is suitable for learning models that view learning as transfer of knowledge to student’s mind. If learning is understood as the development of skills and competences, AI my need to be incorporated in learning processes in different ways. AI supported assessment can be used to help learners to develop their skills and competences and keep students on effective learning paths, by making high-stakes testing redundant, and using broader evidence for assessing skills and competences.
Besides, AI can be very effective in the provision of different assistance to students, such as informing, guidance and helping in time management (e.g., nudging in the execution of tasks according to schedule).
These videos contain some interesting ideas about the usage of AI in the field of administrative work in education.