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Academics have never entirely trusted students not to cheat. Few exams, for instance, have ever been conducted without an invigilator prowling the aisles in search of surreptitious copying or smuggled-in notes. But the current level of institutionalised distrust of students has reached such a pitch that it seems reasonable to call it a moral panic.
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It is with pleasure we introduce Curtin Learning and Teaching’s newly formed Learning Futures Team. The new area, Led by Associate Professor David Gibson, has been created using a combination of existing and new functions. • Innovation Studio • Partnerships and Pathways • UniReady • Insight Centre - Learning Analytics
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Despite authorities closing hundreds of university cheating websites, the purchasing of assignments continues apace.
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Education experts call it ‘grade inflation’. This comes amid reports of more high distinctions being awarded at some Australian universities.
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A presentation from the 2024 Academic Integrity Week, at Charles Darwin University. Presented by Professor Michael Sankey
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Copying boilerplate language is not the same as stealing another person’s ideas or fine prose.
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Major examinations have been a part of education for centuries. New research looks at arguments for and against end-of-semester exams in universities.
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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 no
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Machine-graded bubble sheets are the defining feature of American schools. Today’s kindergartners may never have to fill one out.
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AI has made it easy for post-secondary students to fake their way to a degree. They argue that ChatGPT is just another study tool. Schools say it spells the end of university as we know it
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The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.
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Students, lawyers and others are passing off writing drafted by artificial intelligence as their own. How to spot it?
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Over half of essays written by people were wrongly flagged as AI-made, with implications for students and job applicants
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teaching ChatGPT best practices in her writing workshop class at the University of Lynchburg in Virginia, said she sees the advantages for teachers using AI tools but takes issue with how it can be used to create feedback for students.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Timely and meaningful #feedback? How long before companies like TurnItIn come out with grading #Rubrics and bot graders?
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Australian students are being blackmailed by illegal cheating syndicates largely run by organised crime. Experts warn it is a risk to national security as blackmailers return, threatening to out students for past cheating.
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The real number of students using artificial intelligence is likely far higher, experts say, with detection tools only able to catch unsophisticated cheats.
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In the desperate scramble to combat AI, there is a real danger of penalising students who have done nothing wrong, says Robert Topinka of Birkbeck, University of London
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Something much simpler than generative AI is driving the new culture war.
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Image generated by DALL-E with the prompt 'student working on assessment on their computer' Authentic Assessment in The Age of Generative AI Michael Sankey We have all struggled with the advent of Generative AI in higher education, and the last 10 months has been quite the ride, particularly in terms of how quickly this has…
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The release of ChatGPT has many in higher education worried about the threat it poses to academic integrity, but what if it could be used to help?
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There must be a better approach to measuring a junior doctors’ skills, commitment and knowledge than the current battery of examinations, writes a trainee who obtained the highest clinical examination score at their training hospital. I thought it was time we talked about the exams through which we put every doctor who wants to specialise. …
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Some videos have been shot on university campuses and attracted two million views.
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AI writing detectors like Turnitin and GPTZero suffer from false positives. Here’s the advice of academics, AI scientists and students on how to deal with it.
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Since the release of ChatGPT a little more than six months ago, students have quickly figured out how to get the free AI chatbot to do their homewor
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A presentation to the Academic staff of SISTC (Sydney International School of Technology and Commerce) on different techniques to adopt to work with Generative AI, such as ChatGPT and to consider different forms of assessment.
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Principals say an increase in mental health issues among teenagers is responsible for the rise, but called for better access to health professionals to reduce the disparity between public and private schools in claiming special provisions.
Peter Mellow's insight:
Is our current assessment system worth it? What can we do to make the whole experience better for all?
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