Teachers' trust in AI-powered educational technology and a professional development program to improve it
By Tanya Nazaretsky, Moriah Ariely, Mutlu Cukurova, Giora Alexandron. British Journal of Educational Technology, 2022
477 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Evidence from various domains underlines the critical role that human factors, and especially trust, play in adopting technology by practitioners. In the case of Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered tools, the issue is even more complex due to practitioners' AI-specific misconceptions, myths and fears (e.g., mass unemployment and privacy violations). In recent years, AI has been incorporated increasingly into K-12 education. However, little research has been conducted on the trust and attitudes of K-12 teachers towards the use and adoption of AI-powered Educational Technology (AI-EdTech). This paper sheds light on teachers' trust in AI-EdTech and presents effective professional development strategies to increase teachers' trust and willingness to apply AI-EdTech in their classrooms. Our experiments with K-12 science teachers were conducted around their interactions with a specific AI-powered assessment tool (termed AI-Grader) using both synthetic and real data. The results indicate that presenting teachers with some explanations of (i) how AI makes decisions, particularly compared to the human experts, and (ii) how AI can
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Science Applications, Safety Research
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Citations in the corpus
- The promise and challenges of generative AI in education (2024, unknown): “Previous research has indicated that AI-framed content is considered less credible (Cukurova, Luckin, and Kent 2020) and that teachers have unrealistic expectations from AI-based educational technology (Nazaretsky et al. 2022).”
- Determinants of Intention to Use ChatGPT for Educational Purposes: Findings from PLS-SEM and fsQCA (2023, unknown): “With the ability to learn and adapt over time, ChatGPT has the potential to revolutionize education, making it more accessible, efficient, and effective for learners worldwide (Mijwil et al., 2023; Nazaretsky et al., 2022).”
- A Documentary Evaluation of Offline AI Integration in Teacher-in-a-Box OER Programmes for Low-Connectivity Schools (2026, unknown): “Additional implementation risks include uneven local model performance, language mismatch, hardware and power requirements, maintenance burden, teacher deskilling and procurement dependency [40], [41].”