Assessing writing in the ChatGPT world
When it comes to assessing student writing, ChatGPT merely makes an enduring problem more apparent. This is going to sound strange coming from someone who spent his career teaching writing and now spends his time trying to help others teach writing better, but it is entirely possible that, with the advent of chat bot artificial intelligence, we need to rethink how and when we use writing as a tool for assessing student knowledge and learning, and that may involve assigning less writing.