2025/10/13 by Jack Walton, Margaret Bearman, Nicole Crawford +2 · 1 citation
Computer Science · #Artificial Intelligence in Education #Educational Innovations and Challenges #Engineering Education and Technology
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/02602938.2025.2570328
openalex publication_date 2025/10/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Despite concerns about students’ use of generative AI (GenAI) in assessment, the technology has become embedded into students’ everyday assessment practices. It is unclear how students are making judgements about their ways of working with GenAI and what impact this has upon their learning. This qualitative multimodal study examines students exercising judgement as they work with GenAI to complete assessment tasks. Twenty-six interviews were conducted with Australian university students, primarily using a scroll-back approach, which revisits traces of students’ historical interactions with GenAI in the interviews. Employing a holistic definition of judgement and a narrative approach to analysis, we interpreted six distinct categories of judgement events. These are: 1) making judgements about knowledge when working with GenAI; 2) learning to judge GenAI through its limitations; 3) relying on GenAI for things they could not otherwise do; 4) adopting ideas with low levels of criticality; 5) misjudging GenAI contributions as their own; and 6) submitting GenAI content in an assignment without judging it. This study suggests GenAI use strongly shapes student learning in complex ways when undertaking assessment tasks, and that making judgements about GenAI entails a student making judgements about their own knowledge, deficits, and quality of contributions.