Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. How much bot input should be allowed while completing assignments? Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Will technology induce cheating?

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Academic Integrity Intelligence Ethics Essay 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, Claude, Gemini, DALL-E, and Meta AI has created a pressing new challenge for educators: defining academic integrity in the age of AI. Students might benefit from using these tools on some assignments, but not others. Or for some class activities, but not others.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Students cheating on assignments is hardly a new or surprising problem. In research and surveys conducted by Dr. Donald McCabe and the International Center for Academic Integrity over the span of 12 years, 68 percent of undergraduates who responded admitted to cheating on tests or written assignments.

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Academic Integrity Exams Assignments Instructors 147

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Thats the argument of Tricia Bertram Gallant, a longtime expert in academic integrity who is director of the Academic Integrity Office at the University of California San Diego. It's to teach for integrity, and there's certain things you can do, and they work whether AI's in the picture or not.

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Academic Integrity Instructors Ethics Students 184

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2024

Much of the discourse about generative AI in higher ed has focused on issues of academic integrity. Our researchers aim to ascertain what students and faculty know about the technology, how often they use it and for what purposes, and how they view its usefulness or appropriateness in various academic contexts.

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Academic Integrity Education Instructors Assignments 201

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Tech giants Google, Microsoft and OpenAI have unintentionally assigned educators around the world major homework for the summer: Adjusting their assignments and teaching methods to adapt to a fresh batch of AI features that students will enter classrooms with in the fall.

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Lecturing Education Assignments Syllabus 215

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

I mean, what exactly is a Mann-Whitney U stats test, anyway? Many university campuses host “writing centers” where students can book time to get editing help on their written assignments. Acceptable use may vary from one course to another, and indeed from one assignment to another. So how can that work?

Plagiarism 218

Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2021

The problem, critics say, is that the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. We believe that only a human can best determine whether test-taker behavior is suspicious or violates test rules,” said Scott McFarland, CEO of ProctorU, in a statement issued by the company.

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Exams Distance Learning Academic Integrity Testing 167

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

Intelligence 144

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Were they merely handy summaries that students used to review before a test? Flower Darby (2023) recently wrote about the importance of having conversations with faculty and students about AI, academic integrity, AI in the workplace, and other topics. Tutors and academic support staff could help students make these distinctions.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. But others worry that they can lead to violations of academic integrity.

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Exams Instructors Students Lecturing 199

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Rethinking the Test Those opposed to automated proctoring cite several objections. Some say the systems often lead to false-positives, add stress to the test-taking process and invade privacy. And others have worked to protect academic integrity without using proctoring tools.

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Exams Lecturing Instructors Testing 181

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Were they merely handy summaries that students used to review before a test? Flower Darby (2023) recently wrote about the importance of having conversations with faculty and students about AI, academic integrity, AI in the workplace, and other topics. Tutors and academic support staff could help students make these distinctions.

Syllabus 119

Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

I found some quizzes and tests,” she said, noting that plenty of those materials and PowerPoint slides from other professors were easily found on Course Hero about the subject she was teaching, biomaterials. And sure enough I found four of my homework assignments and my slides,” she said. “I I found some homework questions.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 132

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rise of ChatGPT, Google Bard, New Bing, and others in the academic space, however, is skyrocketing. As I scanned topics like academic integrity, academic dishonesty, and plagiarism, I quickly adopted others’ persuasive opinions based on limited information. My initial encounters with this rising AI were biased.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. You can redesign assignments to address many of these issues. Students want to know why they are being asked to do what you have assigned them to do.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2023

The case raises a point of contention over the use of algorithmic writing detectors — tests of the software have found a high percentage of “false positives” — and there are now examples of cases when accusations that students used AI turned out to be unsubstantiated or were later dropped.

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Plagiarism Academic Integrity Intelligence Instructors 119

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

An AI revolution When I think about generative AI, a story that keeps coming back to me is one from OpenAI’s testing of GPT-4, the neural network that powers ChatGPT. In the course of tackling one of the tasks it was assigned, GPT-4 independently reached out via TaskRabbit for help solving a CAPTCHA.

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Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

After trying it out on some essay prompts he’d been assigned, though, he noticed some problems. And this leaves, Wang says, a “statistical artifact” that you can test for. Most of the academic integrity studies rely on self-reporting, and it can be hard to prove someone’s cheating, he adds. The writing could be awkward.

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Plagiarism Essay Writing Students 208