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In my graded assignments students can pick an AI and “Ask AI” any question at the click of a button. It defaults to Google AI Mode, but other models are available. I know who uses which model and their scores in each assignment. I asked Codex to test the hypothesis whether using a specific model helps students perform better. The short answer? Yes. Model choice matters a lot. Across 333 students, here’s how much more/less students score compared with ChatGPT: ...

Can ChatGPT give teachers data-driven heuristics on student grades? I uploaded last term’s scores from about 1,700 students in my Tools in Data Science course and asked ChatGPT: This sheet contains the scores of students … (and explained the columns). I want to find out what are the best predictors of the total plus bonus… (and explained how scores are calculated). I am looking for simple statements with 80%+ correctness along the lines of: ...

Does it matter which month you’re born in? Based on the results of the 20 lakh students taking the Class XII exams at Tamil Nadu over the last 3 years (via Reportbee), it appears that the month you were born in can make a difference of as much as 120 marks out of 1,200 – or 10%! Most students who took the Class XII exams in 2011 were born between March 1991 and June 1992. The average marks of each student (out of 1200) is shown in the graph below. ...

I’ve been helping with visualising student scores for ReportBee, and here’s what we’ve currently come up with. Each row is a student’s performance across subjects. Let’s walk through each element here. The first column shows their relative performance across different subjects. Each dot is their rank in a subject. The dots are colour coded based on the subject (and you can see the colours on the image at the top: English is black, Mathematics is dark blue, etc.) ...