Using Digital Tools to Lighten Teachers' Workloads: Deutsches Schulportal interview with Olaf Köller

Teachers require a lot of time to correct class work and are also prone to errors. What can be done to reduce the workload? Digital tools may provide a solution. In an interview with Olaf Köller, Managing Director of Research at the IPN, the German School Portal explores how such tools using algorithms work, as well as the current state of educational research in this area.

“Automated correction of multiple-choice tasks or closed questions has been used for a long time, provided that students use computers for such tests or examinations. Current developments in the area of written texts are of greater interest," says Olaf Köller, leading off the conversation and thereby hinting that in the future algorithms based on computational linguistic models could provide far-reaching assistance in the correction of text assignments. You can read more about this in the interview (in German) on the German School Portal website about how this can work for tasks for which there is no one correct answer and to what extent the algorithms used for this are comparable to the currently much-discussed chatbot ChatGPT.