Date of Award
5-2025
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Psychology
First Advisor
Dr. Kevin Webster
Abstract
With AI use becoming more common every day, it is important to test how technology can help us. Feedback is an integral part of the writing process, so we decided to test how well AI can generate feedback for an assignment. Additionally, we examined perceptions people held towards AI & if AI can help student essay scores improve. Overall, no difference of the rate of improvement from the first draft to the second draft was found between AI and humans. Additionally, perceptions of AI are still on the negative side. Finally there was no difference in quality of AI feedback and human feedback.
Recommended Citation
Cummins, Catherine, "Man Versus Machine: Investigating the likelihood of improvement and perceptions based on AI generated versus human generated feedback on writing assignments" (2025). Honors Theses. 1807.
https://scholarship.richmond.edu/honors-theses/1807
