VOA教育报道2023--Educators Seek to Stop AI Use for Cheating

Educators Seek to Stop AI Use for Cheating

Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) services - such as ChatGPT – have become a major resource for cheating in university.

Now, teachers are thinking of new ways to teach classes in order to stop students from cheating with AI. Teachers say they want to use AI to teach and learn in new ways. However, they need to stop students from using the technology on assignments and tests.

For some students, that means a return to paper tests instead of online tests. Some teachers will be requiring students to show the editing history and drafts of their work to prove their thought processes. Other teachers, though, think students have always found a way to cheat and AI is just the newest tool.

The recent growth in the number of AI services has raised many questions for educators. They want students to give correct answers but also know how to do the work to get to those answers. Educators say there is agreement at least on some of the most pressing challenges they face with AI use.

They say it is difficult to identify AI-created schoolwork. They say sometimes students are accused of using AI to cheat when they did not.

In some cases, the cheating is clear to see, said Timothy Main, a writing professor at Conestoga College in Canada. He told the Associated Press, "I had answers come in that said, ‘I am just an AI language model, I don't have an opinion on that.'"

Last semester, Main's writing class had 57 academic honesty cases. Half of them involved use of AI to cheat.

This fall, Main and his fellow professors are changing the rules for the writing course. The teachers will ask students to write more about their opinions. They also put in place strong rules against using AI.

College administrators² have asked teachers to make the rules more clear. Many universities are letting their professors decide the rules about using AI on their own.

At Michigan State University, professors are given several options of statements to choose from, administrator¹ Bill Hart-Davidson told the AP.

"Asking students questions like, ‘Tell me in three sentences what is the Krebs cycle in chemistry?' That's not going to work anymore, because ChatGPT will spit out a perfectly³ fine answer to that question," Hart-Davidson said. He thinks professors should word their questions differently.

Evidence is growing that AI services have changed how students study and find information.

Chegg Inc. is an online company that helps students with schoolwork. Its services have been identified in many cheating cases. On May 1, the company's leader warned that ChatGPT was hurting the business's growth. He said students who were paying for help from Chegg were now using ChatGPT for free instead.

The day after he spoke⁴, the company's market value fell by almost 50 percent.

Bonnie MacKellar, a computer science professor at St. John's University in New York City, thinks that there is going to be a move back to paper tests. Her class already had a "plagiarism⁵ problem" she said, and she worries that new students may not learn the skills needed for more difficult classes.

Ronan Takizawa, a sophomore⁶ at Colorado College, has never had a computer science exam on paper. He agrees that it would make sure students learn the material.

However, Takizawa thinks that students are still not sure when it is alright to use AI and when such use is cheating. Other students say ChatGPT has made them afraid about being unjustly accused of cheating.

Arizona State University sophomore Nathan LeVang says he checks all his assignments with a tool that helps identify AI material.

"If it takes me 10 minutes after I write my essay to make sure everything checks out, that's fine," Levang told the AP, adding, "It's extra work, but I think that's the reality we live in."

Words in This Story

edit – n. to correct, revise, and prepare for publication

draft – n. a preliminary sketch⁷, outline, or version

challenge – n. a stimulating⁸ task or problem

academic – adj. of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning

 

plagiarism – n. the act of stealing and passing off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own: the use of another's production without crediting the source

1 administrator   

n.经营管理者，行政官员

参考例句：

• The role of administrator absorbed much of Ben's energy.行政职务耗掉本很多精力。
• He has proved himself capable as administrator.他表现出管理才能。

2 administrators   

n.管理者( administrator的名词复数 )；有管理（或行政）才能的人；（由遗嘱检验法庭指定的）遗产管理人；奉派暂管主教教区的牧师

参考例句：

• He had administrators under him but took the crucial decisions himself. 他手下有管理人员，但重要的决策仍由他自己来做。 来自辞典例句
• Administrators have their own methods of social intercourse. 办行政的人有他们的社交方式。 来自汉英文学 - 围城

3 perfectly   

adv.完美地，无可非议地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
• Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。

4 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

5 plagiarism   

n.剽窃，抄袭

参考例句：

• Teachers in America fight to control cheating and plagiarism.美国老师们努力对付欺骗和剽窃的问题。
• Now he's in real trouble.He's accused of plagiarism.现在他是真遇到麻烦了。他被指控剽窃。

6 sophomore   

n.大学二年级生；adj.第二年的

参考例句：

• He is in his sophomore year.他在读二年级。
• I'm a college sophomore majoring in English.我是一名英语专业的大二学生。

7 sketch   

n.草图；梗概；素描；v.素描；概述

参考例句：

• My sister often goes into the country to sketch. 我姐姐常到乡间去写生。
• I will send you a slight sketch of the house.我将给你寄去房屋的草图。

8 stimulating   

adj.有启发性的，能激发人思考的

参考例句：

• shower gel containing plant extracts that have a stimulating effect on the skin 含有对皮肤有益的植物精华的沐浴凝胶
• This is a drug for stimulating nerves. 这是一种兴奋剂。