Midterm – Dear Capstone Student

Overview

For this section, imagine that you are working as a psychology consultant, and a person emails you with a request to help solve a real problem. Your job is to locate peer-reviewed, scientific articles to form and write a recommendation and answer each of these questions. Additionally, you will also find reputable resources written for a lay audience as suggested readings.

Then, you will write a professional email back to the person with their question answered.

Problem to Solve:

Imagine that you receive the following email:

Dear Capstone Student,

I am currently developing course materials for my future career as a psychology professor. I recently heard through the APAs Committee on Baccalaureate Education (CABE) that it is important to help students navigate the challenges and opportunities AI presents in how we learn, teach, and work.

However, I am struggling to understand what “AI-generated content” actually is and how it differs from other tools like Grammarly.

• What is AI-generated content? How is it different from other uses of AI, like with Grammarly?
• What are the potential problems of using AI?
• What are the benefits of using AI? Will knowing how to use AI benefit students?

Can you answer these questions using information from peer-reviewed sources on these topics so that I can teach my future students how to use AI-generated content ethically and critically? If you have suggestions for activities that I can implement or other reputable resources, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you!

Jordan Zaneman

123 Mockingbird Lane

Statesboro, GA 30460

Email:

Your Task:

Your job is to answer the questions in Jordan Zaneman’s letter by:

• Write a single-spaced brief report (between 500-800 words) that based on peer-reviewed, scientific sources that includes APA in-text citations and a reference page that answers Jordan Zaneman’s questions. The report should:
• Then, write an email back to Jordan Zaneman that addresses the questions asked in their email to you. The email needs to be professional, and all aspects of the assignment need to model inclusivity and accessibility.
• Next please put the entire midterm together. Use the checklist below to ensure that you have everything you need!
• Submit to the appropriate Assignment Dropbox marked “Midterm – Submit Here”
• Submit the reply email as a .pdf or MS Word Document
• Submit the report as a MS Word Document (.docx) that is written at the audience appropriate level and utilizes the styles function on MS Word.
• Submit .pdfs of the articles you referenced

How to Proceed and Resources that Can Help

• Go through each of the modules associated with this assignment. Most of this information you likely learned in your previous classes. However, it can be helpful to have a refresher.
• You are welcome to ask me, the TA, the Writing Center, the Psychology Department Peer Mentors questions.
• A sample assignment with a different prompt is included in this module. You are welcome to review it to get an idea of the format.

Special Notes

The prompt was originally based of Dr. Stacie Spencer’s consultation model. Then, because APA Committee on Associate and Baccalaureate made AI a priority this year, I adopted the prompt. Though I generated the prompt, I did use Gemini to refine the prompt for clarity.

Google Gemini. (2025, January 8). Revision of midterm question prompt . Gemini 1.5 Flash. https://gemini.google.com/app/e1ab8ea9579eeb

I already found the four peer reviewed sources that need to be used in the report to make it easier and added them in pdf forms and added the example report and letter (if it makes it cheaper or easier to just do the report and not the report and letter I can do the letter just let me know)