Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) This year in Tokyo, for instance, an 18-year-old allegedly used smart glasses to try to cheat on a university entrance exam. One commenter even suggested just giving up on doing tests and assignments and trying to find new ways of assessing student knowledge. “I

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. If you assign students a term paper and they have to manage that all the way to completion, you're teaching them work skills. Most of us in higher education don't [appreciate that].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The difficult part is when students are then taking graded questions from homeworks or exams and just posting them up, getting the answer, and then just using that answer as theirs, instead of doing the work themselves.” And then that student who asked it will copy and paste it or use that answer in their own graded assignment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We And sure enough I found four of my homework assignments and my slides,” she said. “I

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Study Exams Quizzes Academic Integrity 131

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Since passing a test isn’t necessarily representative of student growth, it is also our responsibility to seek out alternative methods for gauging growth that may not be demonstrated on a state exam. Struggling students just struggled more—some shut down completely from the sheer amount of assigned work. Something didn’t add up.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

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Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. These will be a summative review of everything you want them to know on the topic. Students love this game.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Give students time to strategize the best way to compete.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Blockchain credentials are currently “a solution in search of a problem,” says Kevin Werbach, a professor of legal studies and business ethics at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. “If Not everyone is sold on this vision, though. Artists and musicians, what can we learn from them?” Students could get in on the action, too.

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Education Ethics Internet Exams 196

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Automated grading systems powered by AI streamline the time-consuming task of assessing assignments and exams. Lastly, the rapid evolution of technology may outpace regulatory frameworks and ethical guidelines, leading to potential misuse or unintended consequences. What are the pros and cons of AI in education?

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I created this article not to discuss potential legal and ethical issues surrounding AI, but rather to share my observations from a broad perspective. AI can also generate short content, such as answers to take-home quizzes or un-proctored multiple-choice exams. This was often for written assignments or take-home quizzes and tests.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Plagiarism Quizzes Academic Integrity 111

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. AI text detectors are not meant to be used to catch students cheating.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

Should you change the way you give exams and design assignments? Banning the use of technology for exams can create an inaccessible, discriminatory learning experience. Redesigning assignments can reduce the potential for cheating with AI. AI text detectors are not meant to be used to catch students cheating.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 28, 2018

Now, beyond the moral and ethical persuasiveness of a paperless classroom, there is compelling evidence that the time is right to eliminate paper from the classroom: the high cost of printing : Yale University noted that “Every 2.5 Through your LMS, you’ll find it easy to: digitally create and push out assignments.

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Exams Internet Ethics Writing 90

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

So to flag such ethically dubious requests, the company uses machine learning. Universities usually have strict honor code policies about students cheating on exams, homework and other assignments. The company, however, does not want students to use its site to get tutors to do their work for them.

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Essay Ethics Exams Academic Integrity 87

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Give students time to strategize the best way to compete.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

I knew I didn’t do well on the first exam, but it was worse than I thought,” he says. In the standard advising model, a student majoring in business might be assigned an advisor who teaches business. Renick is also a professor of religious studies who teaches a course on religious ethics.) “In

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Ethics Students Exams Communication 91

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Give students time to strategize the best way to compete.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

For example, they may decide to assign experts on each category or make everyone a generalist. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Quandary – challenge students ethically in this MIT game. Give students time to strategize the best way to compete.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 72

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2021

Hear how one professor created an unusual final exam simulation that involved trained chickens. That became a mantra for future classes when he tried similar final exam simulations. “I Listen to Dave Eggers’ concerns about what he sees as overuse of tech in education. Learn what it was like to be a first-year teacher during a pandemic.

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