Charting the Future of AI in Project-Based Learning: A Co-Design Exploration with Students
This addresses the problem of assessment in AI-enhanced education for educators and researchers, but it is incremental as it explores potential rather than implementing a solution.
The paper tackled the challenge of assessing learning outcomes in project-based learning (PBL) as students increasingly use AI, by conducting a co-design study with 18 college students to explore using AI usage data for assessment, resulting in various scenarios and analysis methods based on student attitudes and educational goals.
The increasing use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by students in learning presents new challenges for assessing their learning outcomes in project-based learning (PBL). This paper introduces a co-design study to explore the potential of students' AI usage data as a novel material for PBL assessment. We conducted workshops with 18 college students, encouraging them to speculate an alternative world where they could freely employ AI in PBL while needing to report this process to assess their skills and contributions. Our workshops yielded various scenarios of students' use of AI in PBL and ways of analyzing these uses grounded by students' vision of education goal transformation. We also found students with different attitudes toward AI exhibited distinct preferences in how to analyze and understand the use of AI. Based on these findings, we discuss future research opportunities on student-AI interactions and understanding AI-enhanced learning.