Generative AI Perceptions: A Survey to Measure the Perceptions of Faculty, Staff, and Students on Generative AI Tools in Academia

TL;DR

This paper presents a survey assessing perceptions of ChatGPT among faculty, staff, and students in academia, highlighting its impact on engineering education and the evolving human-technology relationship.

Contribution

It introduces a validated survey tool to measure perceptions of ChatGPT's influence in academia, enabling broader application across institutions.

Findings

Positive perception of ChatGPT's educational potential

Concerns about academic integrity and misuse

Recognition of ChatGPT as a transformative educational tool

Abstract

ChatGPT is a natural language processing tool that can engage in human-like conversations and generate coherent and contextually relevant responses to various prompts. ChatGPT is capable of understanding natural text that is input by a user and generating appropriate responses in various forms. This tool represents a major step in how humans are interacting with technology. This paper specifically focuses on how ChatGPT is revolutionizing the realm of engineering education and the relationship between technology, students, and faculty and staff. Because this tool is quickly changing and improving with the potential for even greater future capability, it is a critical time to collect pertinent data. A survey was created to measure the effects of ChatGPT on students, faculty, and staff. This survey is shared as a Texas A&M University technical report to allow other universities and entities to use this survey and measure the effects elsewhere.