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  1. Mar 2023
    1. If you have questions about what is permitted, please reach out to me.It is important to remember that ChatGPT and other AI tools are not a replacement for your own critical thinking and original ideas. The ultimate goal of this course and any tool used to submit work is to enhance your own learning and understanding, not to undermine it.As a college student, it is your responsibility to maintain the highest standards of academic integrity. This includes a) ensuring that all work submitted for grades is your own original work, and b) properly citing any sources that you use.Having AI write your paper constitutes plagiarism. If the source of the work is unclear, I will require you to meet with me to explain the ideas and your process.
  2. Feb 2022
    1. Where there are particular concerns about contract cheating it may be useful to train markers on how to detect it. After completing a three-hour training workshop, markers in one study accurately detected more than 80% of the contract cheating assignments they marked (Dawson & Sutherland-Smith, 2019). The agenda for this training workshop is available as a free and reproducible resource.

      Is the additional workload of 'extra' marking warranted by a problem with a prevalence of 6%?

      I understand that this statistic is likely an underestimate given how difficult collecting data on this is, but what is the real size and impact of this problem?

      How do we balance the amount of resources that go into dealing with this problem vs the cost of the problems currently?

    2. In Australian research studies, when markers were not looking for contract cheating they did not detect it (Lines, 2016), but when markers were asked to spot contract cheating they detected it around 60% of the time (Dawson & Sutherland-Smith, 2018, 2019). One of the simplest and cheapest interventions to improving contract cheating detection rates therefore is to alert staff to the possibility of contract cheating, and have clear processes in place for them to follow up suspicions.

      This extra work needs to be recognised by the university as part of the academics workload.