Faculty Focus

JANUARY 3, 2023

The November newsfeed heralded the arrival of AI essay writing. AI (or Artificial Intelligence) essay writing recruits online software that sifts through information and generates a thoughtful written analysis. Enter a prompt, and AI can turn out a reasonable essay on everything from utilitarianism to the Krebs cycle…for free.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

They encourage teachers and students to utilize AI for brainstorming, outlining essays, and improving writing mechanics. Coaches worry that AI makes it easier for students to plagiarize or rely on generated answers without truly understanding concepts which can negatively impact academic integrity.

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Coaching Ethics Academic Integrity Plagiarism 200

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. How this leads to cheating : Without an emphasis on academic integrity or a strong student-teacher relationship, students may feel less inclined to follow the rules.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

And as someone who is also a former journalist and editor for EdSurge, I recognize that we should never plagiarize, and that artificially-intelligent chatbots are very, very capable of responding to prompts like “Write me a 500-word essay on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.” What might be some responses that disagree with that idea?”

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Intelligence 218

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Refining his essay : ChatGPT provided models and feedback that helped him improve coherence and argumentation. That made me think about how people see success differently, so I added that idea to my essay. That helped me finish that part of the essay. and Che Guevara. It gave examples like the American Dream.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Languages 166

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

And join us on Tuesday, January 28, for a live online discussion about the issue as part of our EdSurge Live series. We encourage our customers to use the work we provide as a guide,” says Avery Morgan, a spokesperson for EduBirdie, which advertises itself as a “professional essay writing service.” But, luckily, I found Edubirdie.com.

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Essay Writing Academic Integrity Students 171

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2023

After all, chatbots can suddenly spit out five-paragraph essays and other texts in seconds, once considered something that only humans could generate. To Chang’s point, plenty of professors remain concerned about the potential impacts of ChatGPT on academic integrity, even if they’re open to adopting the tools to improve teaching.

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Ethics Essay Teachers Academic Integrity 148

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you redesign your academic integrity syllabus statement or does your current one suffice? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. In the following section, I will discuss each of these points. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays.

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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? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. In the following section, I will discuss each of these points. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. A misguided reward system can push ambitious, high-performing high school students toward cheating in the belief that their plagiarized essays can earn better grades. And in her book My Word!,

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 124

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But I somehow missed that he published a new, different kind of book in 2021 — “ The Anthropocene Reviewed ,” a collection of personal, contemplative, funny and deeply human essays. The essays start off sardonically but become increasingly earnest and reflective.

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Reading Essay Instructors Culture 152

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 92

Faculty Focus

MARCH 30, 2025

2023) highlight AI’s dual edge: it clarifies concepts but also crafts compelling disinformation, posing risks to academic integrity. AI and Academic Integrity: Redrawing Assessment The rise of AI tools like ChatGPT has forced educators to rethink traditional assessment methods. Spitale et al.

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Faculty Development Teaching Instructors Academic Integrity 89

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Part 2 discusses how you can redesign assignments using the TRUST model to serve as a pedagogical tool. Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

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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. Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Be open to a discussion of the course you teach or plan to teach. Include in the conversation a copy of a draft syllabus, required assignments, and any concerns you have about academic integrity. This could be quite a revealing discussion. The librarians interviewed mentioned this as well.

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Syllabus Instructors Learning Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies?

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 116

Faculty Focus

MARCH 10, 2024

And if those of us asking vital questions about access/cost, academic integrity, and a potential loss of linguistic diversity can be heard without accusations of knee-jerk paranoia. Can we learn lessons from the sci-fi canon and reframe the debate around AI technology and writing studies?

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Plagiarism Ethics Writing Learning 111

EAB

DECEMBER 18, 2023

By way of just one example, AIs appear to do an excellent job of reviewing application essays; a model built by researchers from a group of schools including Penn and Virginia Tech is able to process thousands of essays in minutes, while reproducing human-generated ratings with uncanny accuracy. Want more guidance on AI?

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Essay Attention Internet Questions 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. 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”).

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Example prompt: “Give constructive, strengths-based feedback on a 9th grade argumentative essay about climate change, using the NYS ELA rubric.” Teaching them how to write effective prompts develops their metacognition, digital citizenship, and academic integrity.

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Ethics Teachers Essay Feedback 166