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SCI Study Questionnaire Spring 2023

The SCI guilds’ Masters of Academic Affairs

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General

  • The questionnaire was bilingual (Finnish and English) and open for 15 days (12.4.-26.4.)
  • All in all 182 responses (169 in Finnish, 13 else)
  • Lots of answers in the open text fields
  • The questionnaire was focused on the languages of teaching and the use of AI tools

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Taustatietoa / Background Information

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Opintojen kieli / The Language of Studies

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Language skills of students

  • Opinions mainly from Finnish speaking students
  • English skills are either native, fully professionally proficient or working proficient for 96% of the interviewees

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Language policies

  • Students value the quality of education over language (second histogram from left)
  • Students think that the university should maintain the quality of Finnish vocabulary (4th from left)
  • No evidence of unite opinions in other questions

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Findings

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  • Many would rather study in their native language, even if it wouldn’t fit in their schedule as well
  • For others the quality of the teaching is more important than its language, even though the upkeep of Finnish and Swedish vocabulary is still important
  • The choice of language doesn’t feel justifiable for the students in many courses, say a Finnish professors lectures to Finnish audience in English
  • Exercise groups could be formed in all languages if the course is lectured in English

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Luova tekoäly opintovälineenä / Generative AI as a Tool of Study

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Findings

  • Hyöty heittelee paljon
  • Pitäisi kannustaa vastuulliseen käyttöön muiden lähteiden tapaan
  • Täyskielto ei olisi tavoitteellista, muitakin keinoja prujata
  • Yleisesti vastauksista nousee ilmi, että opiskelijat kokevat tekoälyn ensisijaisesti työkaluna eikä kokonaisvaltaisena ratkaisuna - sitä voi hyödyntää esim. rutiinitehtävien hoitoon, vastauksen aloituspisteenä ja uudenlaisien näkökulmien luomisessa
  • Benefit varies a lot
  • Responsible use should be encouraged just like other sources
  • A complete ban would not be sensible, there are other means to cheat
  • In general, the answers show that students perceive artificial intelligence primarily as a tool and not as a comprehensive solution - it can be used, for example, to handle routine tasks, as a starting point for an answer and to create new perspectives

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Opintojen reflektointi / Reflection of Studies

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Overall reflection of my studies

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Overall reflection of my studies

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Findings

  • Monelle hankalampaa kysyä kysymyksiä englanniksi
  • Osa jättää kokonaan kysymättä kielen takia
  • Opiskelijat mielellään vastaavat palautteeseen, mutta harvoin saavat tietää miten heidän palautteensa on huomioitu
  • Monessa vastauksessa nousi kuitenkin esiin, että vastapalaute kurssipalautteeseen on toivottua: tämä motivoisi vastamaan ja antaisi uskoa siihen, että palaute on todella kuultu
  • The barrier to asking questions in English is higher for many students
  • A portion leave questions unasked because of language
  • Students happily fill course feedback, but rarely get to know how their feedback has been taken into account
  • Yet many hope, that there would some kind of counter feedback: that would motivate to answer to the course feedback form and would increase the amount of believe that the feedback has been actually heard