[Anchor]
Proposals are being reviewed to introduce essay and short-answer questions to the CSAT (College Scholastic Ability Test) and have artificial intelligence grade them.
To see if problems might arise when AI grades answers, Reporter Jeong Banseok took an essay test himself.
[Reporter]
A high school in Gyeonggi Province is currently utilizing AI for grading performance assessments.
With the school's permission, our reporting team attended a class alongside the students.
[Lee Yoon-gyu / Science Teacher, Pyeongtaek Cheongbuk High School: Let's learn about the conditions under which fossils are formed.]
After solving an essay question with the first-year students here, we will receive AI grading.
Once the completed answer sheet is scanned, the handwriting is automatically recognized, and grading is completed in under a minute based on grading criteria preset by the teacher.
Final score adjustments are up to the teacher.
[Lee Yoon-gyu / Science Teacher, Pyeongtaek Cheongbuk High School: The first reason is incorrect. The AI judged it as 4 points, but I would give it 3 points.]
Out of a total of 10 points, our reporting team received 7 points, and the students received 8 points.
There is the advantage of reducing the time spent deciphering the poor handwriting of some students.
[Lee Yoon-gyu / Science Teacher, Pyeongtaek Cheongbuk High School: It used to take all day just to grade. Now, grading one class takes anywhere from a short 30 minutes to an hour. Now, it even reads graphs and tables.]
Answer sheets graded by AI in schools under the jurisdiction of the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education have reached 3.37 million cases over the past year.
However, in a survey of 105 teachers, a problem emerged where scores varied every time AI was made to grade the exact same answer sheet.
Because of this, teachers gave lower scores to the consistency and reliability of grading than to other items.
There are also concerns that it could fuel private education.
[Kim Hee-jung / Spokesperson, Teachers' Union Federation: (High school Korean language teacher) AI is still absolutely not at a level where it can grade things involving context or background knowledge. Above all, there are a tremendous number of complaints in school settings regarding essay and short-answer questions. People bring up doctoral dissertations from cram schools asking why this is accepted while that is not...]
The National Education Commission's stance is to consider introducing essay and short-answer questions to the CSAT as early as 2032, but only after going through a public debate process.
While AI technology will advance in the meantime, building trust among students and parents is cited as the top priority task, given that hundreds of thousands of people take the CSAT simultaneously and wins or losses are decided by a single point margin.
(Video by Joo Yong-jin | Video Editing by Kim Jin-won | Design by Kim Min-young)
※
Copying, redistribution, and unauthorized use in AI training are strictly prohibited.