Has ChatGPT Made Economics Homework Questions Obsolete?
ABSTRACT We investigate the accuracy of ChatGPT's answers to multiple‐choice and short essay questions from a widely used OER economics textbook. The questions are classified by their difficulty and cognitive level. In our tests, the bot scored a high D in multiple‐choice questions and a low A in essay questions. Most errors were found in questions of higher cognitive levels, and with calculations and graphs. While a student who has attended lectures would not gain much, if at all, from using the bot for multiple‐choice questions, the gain for a higher grade in essays is considerably larger.
Authors
- Yogesh Uppal
- Tomi Ovaska (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3618-3406)
- J. Michael Palardy
- Rachel Faerber‐Ovaska
Institutions
- Youngstown State University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Bulletin of Economic Research
- Published
- 2024-11-28
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1111/boer.12481
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Innovations in Educational Methods
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.19