Tag: cheating
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Weekly digest 46
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Weekly digest 44
A weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Podcast: Assessment and swiss cheese (with Phillip Dawson)
https://aipodcast.education/assessment-and-swiss-cheese-phill-dawson-episode-9-of-series-9 This week’s guest is Professor Phillip Dawson, who is Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning at Deakin University in Australia. In addition to Phill’s website, we recommend following Phill on LinkedIn, or Twitter, where shares a lot of his work on the future of assessment…You can find Phill’s research papers…
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Focus on designing valid assessments
Assessment validity is more important than cheating in higher education. This post presents a position paper arguing that focusing on valid assessments addresses cheating without moralising. It suggests that anti-cheating measures can sometimes harm validity and inclusion. We should emphasize the importance of ensuring graduates can demonstrate the capabilities our assessments claim to measure, rather…
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More to AI detection than accuracy
AI text detectors, like OpenAI’s 99.9% accurate tool, aren’t the solution to academic cheating. These detectors have limitations, including model-specific detection and manipulable statistical features. We’re not going to find answers by entering into an arms race with students, by trying to build increasingly accurate AI detectors.
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Using AI is not cheating
It makes no sense to say that ‘using AI is cheating’, unless you know more about the context in which the AI was used. ‘Cheating’ implies that students contravened the rules. So just change the rules.
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Universities’ ChatGPT misconduct focus ‘panicked students’
in AIhttps://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/universities-chatgpt-misconduct-focus-panicked-students Universities’ focus on assessment misconduct in the wake of the emergence of large language models “panicked” students, and institutions would have been better being “honest” that they were still figuring out the ramifications of new technologies… Agreed. Universities’ knee jerk reaction and misplaced moralising about the potential for cheating, wasted everyone’s time. And did…
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Stop using AI detection services because they don’t work
The researchers conclude that the available detection tools are neither accurate nor reliable and have a main bias towards classifying the output as human-written rather than detecting AI-generated text. Furthermore, content obfuscation techniques significantly worsen the performance of tools. Weber-Wulff, et al. (2023). Testing of detection tools for AI-generated text. International Journal for Educational Integrity,…
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AI is replacing knowledge workers…
“Last year at a time like this, I was getting, on average, 50 to 70 assignments, including discussions which are shorter, around 150 words each, and don’t require much research,” Collins told Rest of World. “Right now, on average, I get around 30 to 40-something assignments.” He requested to be identified only by his first…
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Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin | Just Visiting
Allowing the proliferation of algorithmic surveillance as a substitution for human engagement and judgment helps pave the road to an ugly future where students spend more time interacting algorithms than instructors or each other. This is not a sound way to help writers develop robust and flexible writing practices. Source: Another Terrible Idea from Turnitin…
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How do students perceive academic literacy?
Narrative means towards literacy understandings: exploring transformations within literacies and migrating identities Last week I attended a short seminar by Dr. Catherine Hutchings from UCT, who presented some of the results of her PhD study looking at academic literacy and student identity. Here are some notes I took during the seminar. How do students develop…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-05-16
RT @amcunningham: An analysis of clinical reasoning through a recent and comprehensive approach: the dual-process theory http://is.gd/WrvHwI # The use of tense in Lit review. http://bit.ly/ma0MBm. I also prefer the present tense to situate the conversation in a current context # 13 Photographs That Changed the World. http://bit.ly/iK9LFP # “Dropbox Lied to Users about Data…
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Posted to Diigo 04/07/2011
eLearn: Opinions – Academic Honesty in the Online Environment “How can you be sure students are not cheating?” Do we naturally assume if we cannot see students as they complete an exam, then they are sharing answers or having someone else take their exam? One thing I started doing several years ago was having students…
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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-08-23
in Digestacademic integrity, africa, CEO, cheating, cognician, conversation tool, facebook, inception, ipad, kmail, language, mendeley, online behaviour, online learning, pdf, port Zotero, professional behaviour, rapportive, RT, teaching problems, thunderbird, Tony Bates, twifficiency, twitter, United Kingdom, zoteroCheating in online learning. Balanced viewpoint from Tony Bates http://bit.ly/adFoXT # Went back 2 Thunderbird after using Kmail for a few years. Really impressed with how it’s developed, I’m actually enjoying managing my email # RT @alastairotter: How the Internet is changing language http://bbc.in/95XmAo # @nlafferty Used 2 use Zotero until I tried Mendeley, which…