ChatGPT, which has been in our lives since 2022, gets better with each new version. Even though students do not admit it, they continue to use this artificial intelligence in both their homework and projects. According to studies, ChatGPT now writes better articles than secondary school students.
ChatGPT is at the top of language lessons
Scientists from the University of Passau tested new versions of ChatGPT in a benchmark called Bavarian Abitur. (Bavarian Abitur is an exam that resembles our high school entrance exams, but is taken by students for secondary school graduation.) More than 100 educators who participated in the study graded both the students’ and ChatGPT’s papers. As a result, the chatbot came in first place by a huge margin in terms of average score.
In the study conducted on an English course, versions 3.5 and 4 of the GPT language model that powers ChatGPT managed to obtain better results from students in all categories of lexical diversity, sentence complexity, nominalization, use of tenses, epistemic and discourse markers that the researchers use for evaluation in grading. While the average success score of the students was 3.9, ChatGPT 4 reached 5.25 points.
According to the teachers, the students’ grades are not low, but ChatGPT is extremely successful. That’s why students are left behind this productive language model. According to researchers, ChatGPT’s learning ability is quite high and the probability of making human errors is very low.
Professor Steffen Herbold, who works at the University of Passau and is the head of the research, stated in his statement that he was very surprised by the results, and underlined that they did not expect such a clear difference. The researchers also explained that the necessary sensitivity should be shown towards artificial intelligence tools in education.
The research was published in Scientific Reports.
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