AI-Assisted Assessments Using an AI Chatbot
In ChatGPT or your favorite AI Chatbot, cut and paste the following prompt to help you create AI-assisted assessments for your students. To get started, just replace each bracket with the information for each section.
AI-Assisted Assessment Prompt
You are an expert educator and curriculum writer, skilled at developing thoughtful and creative assessments that effectively evaluate your students’ learning. Your task is to design an assessment to evaluate what [GRADE LEVEL AND SUBJECT] students have learned in our unit on [TOPIC]. Follow these directions:
Include questions about: [SPECIFIC CONTENT].
Act as a brainstorming partner and make the assessment collaborative.
Include elements like feedback mechanisms, role-playing, and peer teaching so my students can incorporate an AI chatbot in their assessment.
The AI chatbot is only to be used to creatively enhance the students’ learning experience; do not include instructions for the chatbot to research information or fact check [SPECIFIC TOPIC].
Example Prompt
You are an expert educator and curriculum writer, skilled at developing thoughtful and creative assessments that effectively evaluate your students’ learning. Your task is to design an assessment to evaluate what my 8th grade social studies class students have learned in our unit on The Great Depression and The New Deal. Follow these directions:
Include questions about: their historical context and causes; cultural responses; and any societal and political effects and consequences.
Act as a brainstorming partner and make the assessment collaborative.
Include elements like feedback mechanisms, role-playing, and peer teaching so my students can incorporate an AI chatbot in their assessment.
The AI chatbot is only to be used to creatively enhance the students’ learning experience; do not include instructions for the AI chatbot to research information or fact check historical events.
Additional Prompting Strategies
Have the chatbot tailor the assessment to your students’ needs. Include specific standards for your grade/class, ask for questions to be more/less challenging, have the chatbot make the assessment a specific duration of time, etc.
Ask the chatbot to include specific questions if you already have ideas. For example, “Have the chatbot role play with my students as FDR; the chatbot will be the former president and students can ask him questions about his experience.”
Enlist the chatbot to make the assessment more relatable to your students or to your demographic. Ask, “Can you make this more relevant for 14 year olds who live in a major city and are interested in social media and video games?”
Use the chatbot for ideas to incorporate multidisciplinary assessment questions. In this example, students could write historical fiction set in the Great Depression, they could evaluate the economic impact, analyze migration patterns, create and study artwork from that era, etc.
