Aaron Trocki, Associate Professor of Mathematics, is the 2023-2025 CEL Scholar. His CEL Scholar work focuses on models of assessment and feedback outside of traditional grading assumptions and approaches.

Blog Posts by Aaron Trocki

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Student-Reported Benefits and Tensions about Generative AI in Academics: Part 2

In part one of this two-part blog post, I shared some findings from a focus group interview conducted at the end of last semester. In the first part of the focus group interview, students provided their reactions to the Artificial…

A gradient background with a text overlay: "I found that ChatGPT assisted most students with explaining these challenging concepts and applications for their non-expert readers... I hoped that students would use my feedback to make changes to how they demonstrate evidence of their learning when ChatGPT is available for their use."

Applying Lessons Learned about Student Use of Generative AI in Academics

In previous blog posts, I shared the results of a focus group interview about students’ perceptions of using generative AI in their academics. The focus group interview took place at the end of fall semester 2023 after my students completed an…

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Analyzing an Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessment and Student Feedback 

In my prior blog post, I summarized lessons learned from piloting an artificial intelligence-supported assessment (AI-SA) and gathering student feedback. This work was framed by Clark and Talbert’s feedback loop model where I used feedback I gathered from students during…

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Perspectives on Using Generative AI in College Assignments 

Making College “Worth It” – Season 2, Episode 2 This episode explores what AI integration in college assignments can do for student learning. With guests Aaron Trocki, a math professor at Elon university, and Alyssa Collins, who is studying to…

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Analyzing an Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessment and Summarizing Key Takeaways  

In this blog post, I share my analysis of the third artificial intelligence-supported assessment (AI-SA) students completed in the spring of 2024. If you have been following these posts, you will recall that this AI-SA was the last one administered…

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Exploring Student Choice in Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessments for Learning (Part 1) 

In this series of blog posts, I began by exploring models of assessment and feedback and offering some perspectives on benefits and drawbacks from various models. The practice perspective as described by Boud et al. (2018) proved valuable in my…

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Exploring Student Choice in Artificial Intelligence-Supported Assessments for Learning (Part 2) 

In part one of this two-part blog post, I shared the revision of an artificial intelligence-supported assessment (AI-SA) I had used in spring 2024. The revised version gave students a choice in what technology (ChatGPT or internet search) they could…