How will use of the AI affect Honors classes?
Carolina offers Honors sections of departmental course offerings. Students in the Honors Program (and some other students) enroll in these sections to fulfill general education and major field requirements. Because these sections enroll students who have chosen a rigorous course of study and have met high selection standards, the grades in honors sections tend to be higher than in non-honors sections. For example, the average percentage of As awarded in Honors sections was 42.3 while it was 24.6 in the comparable non-honors sections. The impact of grades in a section on AI depends on two factors: the extent to which the instructor’s grades differentiate levels of student performance and how well the students in the class have done in their other classes. For Honors sections on average, the AI calculation for the grade of A places students above the 82.7th percentile of the student body as a whole while for non-honors section an A places students above the 75.8th percentile. Thus, the A
