Artificial Intelligence Solutions and College Students’ Assessment: Exploring Potential Influences on their Creative Thinking Skills

Abstract

Recently, many college students are using artificial intelligence (AI) applications intensively while preparing for assessment. AI applications provide students ready content and different formats. This technological behavior requires educators to study the possible influence of AI applications on college students’ creative thinking skills. Hence, this study comes to investigate the influence of AI generative solutions used by college students in assessment on their creative thinking skills. It follows the descriptive research methodology that does not involve nor require college students to participate throughout the steps and procedures, because the data analysis, findings, and discussions of several relevant studies were systematically reviewed and analyzed by this study to shed the light on the potential influence. This study finds that generative AI applications are used in many ways, like: text, image, audio, video, and code. It shows that AI solutions significantly increase college students’ creative thinking skills by improving their imagination and generating creative ideas in different formats. It proposed a well-prepared systematic framework of AI applications and their most effective practical techniques to increase college students’ creative thinking skills. It recommends that instructors need to embed creative thinking skills strategies into the assessment to enable college students use AI applications creatively.