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Joanne Jacobs
Nov 142 min read
Is everybody cheating?
Cheating is common for college students. Many think A is the only acceptable grade.
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Joanne Jacobs
Oct 32 min read
Learning is hard, and cheating is easier than ever: What can teachers do?
Teachers can't turn every student into an eager learner, but they can make it harder to cheat.
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Joanne Jacobs
Sep 22 min read
AI is winning the war on cheating
A majority of students use AI to help write papers, and AI detection tools remain unreliable.
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 61 min read
'Credit recovery' relies on easy tests, lots of cheating
"Credit recovery" boosts graduation rates by letting students who've failed a traditional course pass very easy tests on which it is very...
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Joanne Jacobs
May 262 min read
If teachers ban AI for students, can they use it for grading?
Can teachers ban AI for students' writing but use it for grading?
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 29, 20231 min read
Cheaters prosper: Why graduation rates are meaningless
High schools have been using online credit recovery (OCR) to inflate graduation rates, writes Jeremy Noonan. His former district,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 28, 20231 min read
'They're here for the Wharton brand, a 4.0 GPA and to party'
Cheating has become the norm for college students, writes Suzy Weiss on Free Press. "Remote learning" during Covid lowered standards and...
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Joanne Jacobs
Feb 26, 20232 min read
Catching ChatGPT cheaters is tough: Is it bursty?
Open AI's program to catch chatbot cheaters is very unreliable, write Armin Alimardani and Emma A. Jane on The Conversation. The company...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 18, 20231 min read
When the best paper in the class was written by a bot
Professors are changing the way they assess students to make it harder for students to use artificial intelligence to generate essays,...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 10, 20232 min read
Teaching with AI: Can the bot be a useful tool?
ChatGPT can be a powerful teaching tool, argues Ben Talsma, who helps teachers use technology, on Chalkbeat. A learning specialist for...
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Joanne Jacobs
Jan 2, 20232 min read
Back to handwriting?
I don't write much by hand these days, and when I do it's a chore. Even writing a few lines on Christmas cards seems like hard work....
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Joanne Jacobs
Dec 11, 20222 min read
ChatGPT writes better than most students: What next?
Is writing over? The ability to write clearly and cogently has been seen as "a gatekeeper, a metric for intelligence, a teachable skill,"...
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Joanne Jacobs
Aug 23, 20222 min read
AI doesn't write well, but it's better than some students
Shakespeare it's not. However, a new artificial-intelligence technology called GPT-3, which understands and generates text, could help...
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