Is the proposed use of AI transparent?
Transparency exists on many levels. The proposal charges the implementation committee with providing basic explanations of AI (e.g., it measures student academic performance independently of course grading practices, it is based on a student’s performance relative to other students in the class taking into account how those students’ overall record of academic achievement) and of justification for its use (e.g., it is a better indicator of relative student performance than is GPA). In addition, the implementation committee will be charged with developing materials that show students how their AI was influenced by specific courses. While care will be needed in crafting these explanations, there is little doubt that it can be explained successfully. It is not expected that most people have the background in statistics to understand exactly how AI is calculated. Here, AI has a different type of transparency. The algorithm has been published in a respected peer-reviewed journal and is avai
