Description
This presentation will reflect on how a school wide implementation of an AI in Assessment Scale (Perkins et al, 2024) has been used to investigate how guided GenAI activities can help and/or hinder students and academic writing teachers throughout learning and teaching academic writing skills. These activities were included in our Research and Writing modules which include students on Business, Social Sciences, Science and Pre-Med programmes.The Assessment Scale was implemented to provide clarity to students to what extent they could use GenAI in their assessed work. However, previous discussions and feedback from students and teachers revealed differing understandings of what was helpful and what was hindering to learning. The activities I will discuss look at how teachers and students can engage with GenAI in a critically reflective manner while supporting learners along the writing process.
Feedback from students has shown that they are more confident in how they can use GenAI to help develop their academic writing skills and avoid issues with academic integrity. Teacher feedback suggest that working with students with these activities has given them time to explore more deeply how GenAI can help and hinder teaching and learning beyond what Corbin et al (2025) report as the “absurd line” of acceptable use of AI in Academic Writing.
| Period | 2 Jul 2025 → 4 Jul 2025 |
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| Event title | European Association of Teachers of Academic Writing (EATAW) 2025: Multilingual Academic Literacies: Challenges and Opportunities in the Age of AI |
| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Braga, PortugalShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |