Qualitative survey themes describe 'Pedagogical Burnout': faculty report detection policing displaces teaching, casts them as 'Digital Prosecutors', and fuels an unwinnable arms race¶

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q2 i? Open-ended survey responses reveal chronic erosion of instructional motivation driven by displacement of teaching by policing. → Md Zarzees Uddin Shah Chowdhury and Samin Rahman Khan 2026

Evidence¶

Md Zarzees Uddin Shah Chowdhury and Samin Rahman Khan 2026¶

Md Zarzees Uddin Shah Chowdhury and Samin Rahman Khan. (2026). Evaluation in the Age of AI: Output as Evidence of Learning. https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.22660 doi:10.48550/arxiv.2608.22660

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Inductive thematic analysis of open-ended responses in the n=20 survey. Faculty reported proving AI use pulled time from instructional design and mentorship, described feeling like "Digital Prosecutors", and reported an escalating detection-evasion arms race and corrosion of student-instructor trust.

"Open-ended responses revealed a pervasive sense of “Pedagogical Burnout”—a chronic erosion of instructional motivation driven by the displacement of teaching by policing."

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