A high school in Gyeonggi Province is currently utilizing artificial intelligence for performance assessment grading.
Our reporting team attended a class alongside students with the school's permission.
[Lee Yoon-gyu / Science Teacher, Pyeongtaek Cheongbuk High School: Let's learn about the conditions under which something becomes a fossil.]
After solving a descriptive exam question with the first-year students here, we will have it graded by AI.
Once the completed answer sheets are scanned, the handwriting is automatically recognized, and grading is completed in under a minute based on grading criteria predetermined by the teacher.
Final score adjustments are up to the teacher.
[Lee Yoon-gyu / Science Teacher, Pyeongtaek Cheongbuk High School: The first reason was incorrect. The AI judged it as 4 points, but I would give it 3 points.]
Out of a possible 10 points, the 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 a single class takes anywhere from a short 30 minutes to an hour. Now it even reads graphs and tables completely.]
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, a survey of 105 teachers revealed a problem where the scores fluctuated every time the AI graded the exact same answer sheet.
Consequently, teachers gave lower scores to the consistency and reliability of the grading compared to other categories.
There are also concerns that it could fuel private education.
[Kim Hee-jung / Spokesperson, Teachers' Union Federation (High School Korean Teacher): AI is still nowhere near the level where it can grade things involving context or background knowledge. Above all, there are a tremendous number of complaints in school settings regarding descriptive and essay-type questions. People come from private academies even bringing up doctoral dissertations asking why one is accepted and another is not...]
The National Education Commission is considering introducing descriptive and essay-type questions to the CSAT (College Scholastic Ability Test) as early as 2032, subject to public deliberation.
While AI technology will advance in the meantime, building trust among students and parents is cited as the top priority, given that hundreds of thousands of people take the CSAT simultaneously and admissions are decided by a single-point margin.
(Reported by Jung Ban-seok | Producer: Choi Yoon-seo | Camera filming: Joo Yong-jin | Video editing: Kim Jin-won | Design: Kim Min-young | Produced by SBS Digital News)
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