AnalysisEducationAugust 27, 2026

Study: AI grades essays higher than humans, unreliable

A study in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education found ChatGPT graded 50 undergraduate bioscience essays higher than humans in all but one case, with one AI-human gap of 40 points. AI inflated low-scoring essays and deflated high-scoring ones, showing poor alignment with human marks.

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