Journal article
AI and peer reviews in higher education: students’ multimodal views on benefits, differences and limitations
Technology, pedagogy and education, Vol.34(5), pp.583-601
10/20/2025
DOI: 10.1080/1475939X.2025.2480807
Abstract
Since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022, educational researchers and practitioners have sought to understand the ways in which these new generative AI technologies might influence education. This article describes one such effort. The focus of the investigation was chatbots responding from large language models to the review of open-ended student work. Specifically, the authors examined university students’ multimodal views of the benefits and limitations of AI reviews as compared to human feedback. The participants were postgraduate students in a public American university. The students’ opinions of their experiences with both types of reviews were expressed linguistically, visually and gesturally, and they were submitted to discursive and socio-semiotic analyses. The results revealed a preference for human reviews. Nevertheless, the participants also identified several benefits for AI feedback, as well as ways in which it had complemented human reviews, overwhelmingly welcoming its addition as part of their educational experience.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- AI and peer reviews in higher education: students’ multimodal views on benefits, differences and limitations
- Creators
- Gabriela C. ZapataBill CopeMary KalantzisAnastasia Olga (Olnancy) TziridesAkash K. SainiDuane SearsmithJennifer WhitingNikoleta Polyxeni KastaniaVania CastroTheodora KourkoulouJohn W. JonesRodrigo Abrantes da Silva
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Technology, pedagogy and education, Vol.34(5), pp.583-601
- DOI
- 10.1080/1475939X.2025.2480807
- ISSN
- 1475-939X
- eISSN
- 1747-5139
- Publisher
- ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 03/28/2025
- Date published
- 10/20/2025
- Academic Unit
- Teaching and Learning
- Record Identifier
- 9984805007302771
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