Faculty Focus

JULY 18, 2023

The most prominent concern is the impact on academic integrity. Issues like plagiarism, cheating (on tests or in admission scandals), and integrity have been the center of ethical conversations for many years. Mayo is director of Academic Integrity at Quinnipiac University. 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. Tell your students what YOU allow Every college and university has an academic integrity/honesty or academic dishonesty statement.

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Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 98

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

This approach stems from concerns about academic integrity, originality, and the potential for AI to undermine the development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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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. The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

While K-12 teachers concerns about GenAI’s impact on academic integrity (83 percent, -1 percent YoY) and a lack of training/support (34 percent, -4 percent YoY) have gone down, concerns about data privacy (32 percent, +4 percent YoY) have increased. test and quiz questions) (34 percent), animations (e.g.,

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. Its stock price has more than tripled during the pandemic. Is the company doing enough to keep students from misusing the service?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Amid the chorus of concern, a note of dissonance sounded from the exhibit hall, where controversial test-proctoring tools and services were prominently displayed and their booths generously staffed.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2022

The university argued during the court proceedings that no other students complained, that the student could have chosen a different area to take the test that didn't contain private information and that plenty of other colleges used the same approach during the pandemic shift to online education.

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Exams Academic Integrity Testing Study 205

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

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. They can’t say after-the-fact ‘Oh, well, I didn’t know that was an academic integrity violation.’”

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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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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 166

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

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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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Educators at both schools and colleges were already struggling to keep up with ChatGPT and other AI tools during this academic year, but a fresh round of announcements last month by major AI companies may require even greater adjustments by educators to preserve academic integrity and to accurately assess student learning, teaching experts say.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

I mean, what exactly is a Mann-Whitney U stats test, anyway? The policy still includes a mention that “use of AI technology to generate partial or complete responses to course prompts is not permissible,” and will lead to “an academic integrity violation.” Ultimately, the underlying approach is not new.

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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. Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. AI chatbots have elevated the importance of academic integrity.

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? Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. Redesigning academic integrity statements is essential. AI chatbots have elevated the importance of academic integrity.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

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.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

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 118

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. Bean backpack along with my textbooks and kelly green Trapper Keeper.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 124

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Utilizing CAPTCHA responses to differentiate humans from bots CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely employed tool for distinguishing between human users and automated programs. Remember, the goal is to maintain the integrity of the educational experience for all students.

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Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

National data showing improved test scores and graduation rates has begun to emerge supporting the wisdom of models like I Promise. By executing targeted poverty relief in tandem with academics, integrated supports can drive breakthrough results that siloed systems can’t.

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Education Schools Achievement Academic Integrity 152

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. Bean backpack along with my textbooks and kelly green Trapper Keeper.

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Syllabus Academic Integrity eLearning Assignments 119

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers. But others worry that they can lead to violations of academic integrity.

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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. She didn’t really pay attention to the goal of the site—which is for students to share their notes and other class materials.

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 127

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For instance, in the User Experience Research Project mentioned above, students have to find 3-5 peers to conduct usability testing of an educational digital tool and they present this data in their final report. Why not make the classroom about learning and not testing? Testing & curriculum must adapt for students to succeed.

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

For instance, in the User Experience Research Project mentioned above, students have to find 3-5 peers to conduct usability testing of an educational digital tool and they present this data in their final report. Why not make the classroom about learning and not testing? Testing & curriculum must adapt for students to succeed.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Utilizing CAPTCHA responses to differentiate humans from bots CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) is a widely employed tool for distinguishing between human users and automated programs. Remember, the goal is to maintain the integrity of the educational experience for all students.

Academic Integrity 111

Academic Integrity Education Plagiarism Students 111

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Then the tool asks a series of questions about the text (either questions input by the instructor or generated by the AI) to test the student’s grasp of key concepts. To use Sherpa, an instructor first uploads the reading they’ve assigned, or they can have the student upload a paper they’ve written.

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

And this leaves, Wang says, a “statistical artifact” that you can test for. The figures show that cheating has increased dramatically, but the actual figures may be undercounts, says Derek Newton, who runs The Cheat Sheet , a newsletter focused on academic fraud. Put simply, essays written by chatbots are incredibly predictable.

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