Education Minister Abandons Revamp Of Leaving Cert Assessments Over AI Fears
Minister for Education Norma Foley has abandoned plans to introduce teacher-based assessment as part of a revised Leaving Cert programme, highlighting concerns surrounding the risk of cheating posed by artificial…
Read More Fewer essays, more oral exams, no online tests: shake-up to prevent students using AI to cheat
Radical changes in how students are assessed are on the way in a move to combat the threat of artificial intelligence (AI) platforms such as ChatGPT. It is early days,…
Read More ChatGPT Out-scores Medical Students on Complex Clinical Care Exam Questions
ChatGPT can outperform first- and second-year medical students in answering challenging clinical care exam questions, a new study by Stanford researchers has revealed. The findings highlight the accelerating impact of…
Read More ChatGPT killed the student essay? Philosophers call bullshit
ChatGPT does pose a unique set of challenges and opportunities when it comes to education and assessment — some of which ChatGPT has not so much created as brought to…
Read More ChatGPT and cheating: Five ways to change how students are graded
Universities and schools have entered a new phase in how they need to address academic integrity as our society navigates a second era of digital technologies, which include publicly available…
Read More We pitted ChatGPT against tools for detecting AI-written text, and the results are troubling
Educators in particular are scrambling to adjust to the availability of software that can produce a moderately competent essay on any topic at a moment’s notice. Should we go back…
Read More ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don’t Panic
ChatGPT emerged at a time when many teachers are experiencing burnout after emergency remote learning during the pandemic. Now another technological phenomenon threatens to upend their entire approach to teaching, creating…
Read More ChatGPT failed my course: How bots may change assessment
Discovering that your students have tried to get a leg up by using an AI chatbot like ChatGPT has made the process of granding even more unpleasant. From a teacher’s…
Read More ChatGPT vs Singapore pupils: How chatbot fared in PSLE maths, science and English
ChatGPT may be hailed as the gold standard among chatbots in the mainstream but The Straits Times has found that the Primary School Leaving Examination is too big a challenge…
Read More ChatGPT: Is Scotland’s education sector equipped for AI revolution?
There is a clear and present danger to the integrity of exams that have significant levels of coursework. “The problem is that these chatbots use material from the web that has…
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