Students trust educator feedback more than AI-generated feedback: 90.5% versus 60.1% rated it somewhat or very trustworthy in an Australian survey¶
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q2 i? In a survey of Australian students, 90.5% reported educator feedback as somewhat or very trustworthy compared with 60.1% for AI-generated feedback, with reliability and credibility as key concerns. → Winstone 2026
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Winstone 2026¶
Winstone, N. E., Gravett, K., Bearman, M., Noble, C., Jensen, L. X., Jones, A., & Nicola-Richmond, K. (2026). The care-full craft of feedback in an age of generative AI. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 51(5), 911-927. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2026.2643333
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The review attributes this to Henderson et al. (2025): a survey of Australian students in which "90.5% reported educator feedback information as somewhat or very trustworthy, compared with only 60.1% for AI-generated feedback information". The review prints percentages only, no effect size, and does not describe the survey design.
"Henderson et al. (2025) surveyed Australian students and found that 90.5% reported educator feedback information as somewhat or very trustworthy, compared with only 60.1% for AI-generated feedback information. Key concerns included reliability and credibility."
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Related Claims¶
- Feedback improves learning by a medium amount on average, but its effect varies widely with the information it carries, and a substantial share of feedback effects are negative — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Trustworthiness and goodwill, more than expertise, set the limits of students' reliance on AI-generated feedback — related
- Students' reservations about AI feedback centre on trustworthiness (data privacy) and goodwill (impersonal, demotivating feedback) — related
- Students bound their reliance on AI feedback and advocate a hybrid model assigning AI broad language concerns and instructors individualized relational guidance — related
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Students trust educator feedback more than AI-generated feedback: 90.5% versus 60.1% rated it somewhat or very trustworthy in an Australian survey |
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Students trust educator feedback more than AI-generated feedback: 90.5% versus 60.1% rated it somewhat or very trustworthy in an Australian survey |
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