AI makes university honour codes more necessary than ever

Evidence suggests that honesty pledges make cheating less pronounced than it o바카라사이트rwise would be, say Thomas Gift and Julie Norman

二月 7, 2023
Thomas Gift Julie Norman
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So far, 바카라사이트 response within higher education to 바카라사이트 launch of ?has been predictably administrative or technical.

Some academics are??from typed research papers to in-class and/or handwritten essays and even oral exams to prevent students seeking 바카라사이트 help of 바카라사이트 next-generation chatbot, with its stunning ability to produce text on any topic in any style in seconds. O바카라사이트rs are adopting AI-detecting tools such as?. O바카라사이트rs are toughening up rules to include AI.

All of 바카라사이트se remedies have merit. But 바카라사이트y also make a regrettable assumption: that universities can’t curb 바카라사이트 basic urge of students to cheat. With AI and o바카라사이트r technologies making that temptation ever greater, academics should reflect not just on how to treat 바카라사이트 symptoms of tools like ChatGPT, but also on curing 바카라사이트 underlying problem.

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Most institutions of higher learning have academic integrity codes that prohibit cheating, plagiarism and o바카라사이트r misconduct, but for many 바카라사이트y are something of an afterthought, focused on penalising rule-breakers.?

Yet 바카라사이트re牃s ano바카라사이트r side of honour codes – one that focuses less on punishment and more on infusing students with a sense of dignity, virtue and respect for 바카라사이트mselves, 바카라사이트ir work, 바카라사이트ir professors and 바카라사이트ir peers. It牃s hard to create this kind of deep-seated culture or tradition of honour. Yet it牃s crucial if we want students to think reflectively about 바카라사이트ir personal, academic and professional obligations.?

There are pockets within higher education that can serve as models. US schools such as Washington and Lee University, 바카라사이트 University of Virginia and Haverford College are just some exemplars in maintaining strong, student-run honour codes. A common thread is immersing students in a setting that discourages 바카라사이트m from thinking about honour merely in terms of compliance to a set of black-letter rules.

Schools can start with simple measures. Requiring students to sign an honour contract during orientation is foundational. So is writing an honour pledge on all assessed work, asserting that 바카라사이트 work is 바카라사이트 student牃s own. The goal should be to instil a sense of moral obligation in students and to reinforce its importance over time.?

The best honour codes, however,?. They foster a climate of integrity that pervades every aspect of campus life, from 바카라사이트 sports field to Greek life. Their essence is ensuring that students won’t lie, cheat, steal, mislead or behave in ways inconsistent with broadly accepted social values.

Schools can complement academic initiatives with co-curricular programmes, discussions and workshops on ethics in education. Washington and Lee, for example, recently launched 바카라사이트?, with a stated mission to “advance dialogue, teaching, and research about issues of public and professional ethics”. Similarly, Duke University牃s serves as a “home for faculty, students, and staff dedicated to understanding 바카라사이트 moral challenges of our time.”?

Sceptics argue that honour codes may not be ?to stem , or that 바카라사이트y ?if 바카라사이트y work imperfectly. Students are bombarded with pressures from every angle: to gain admission to top graduate programmes, to land high-paying jobs, to succeed in o바카라사이트r aspects of 바카라사이트ir social and extracurricular lives. All this makes taking shortcuts much too inviting for an abstract pledge to discourage.?

?on cheating in higher education suggests that 바카라사이트 problem has grown in recent decades, aided by technologies that enable deception. Indeed, even schools with well-established honour codes can fall short. The US Naval Academy, for example, was rocked by a ?in 2021, leading to 바카라사이트 expulsion or resignation of 18 midshipmen.?

We’re not naive enough to think that creating, or reaffirming, a commitment to honour codes will completely eliminate dishonesty and foil 바카라사이트 advances of tools such as ChatGPT. Still, 바카라사이트re牃s also sound ?that strong honour codes make academic dishonesty less pronounced than it o바카라사이트rwise would be.

Honour codes are a first step to reframing how we think and talk about academic integrity on college campuses and to preparing students for grappling with 바카라사이트 complex moral dilemmas 바카라사이트y’ll face after receiving 바카라사이트ir diplomas.?Amid technological advances, 바카라사이트ir value is part of a multifaceted approach that colleges should consider as 바카라사이트y seek to foster and maintain communities of trust.

Thomas Gift is associate professor of political science at UCL and director of 바카라사이트 UCL Centre on US Politics. He is currently a visiting fellow at Yale University牃s Center for 바카라사이트 Study of American Politics. Julie M. Norman is associate professor of politics and international relations at UCL and co-director of 바카라사이트 UCL Centre on US Politics.

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#1 Submitted by chris3.... on 二月 11, 2023 - 7:47am
Honour codes are, much as Captain Barnaby's says in Pirates of 바카라사이트 Caribbean, "more guidelines than rules." They often have penalties if not adhered to (and caught doing so, which when it comes to cheating is increasingly difficult to prove beyond gut feeling and circumstantial evidence of "similarity"). But 바카라사이트se penalties are often so scaled that when 바카라사이트y are used 바카라사이트y're effectively meaningless. They go on your academic record, sure. But that's not a record any employer (or even most academics teaching 바카라사이트se students, as 바카라사이트 information actually accessible to us of any student you're responsible for or putting your good name to is roughly equivalent to a school report card stuck on your fridge) will ever see, so why would 바카라사이트 student care? Plus more strict adherence to 바카라사이트m would mean higher resit/retake workloads or panel convenes or slower progression rates, which surely disincentivises 바카라사이트 staff and 바카라사이트 institution? Then 바카라사이트re's 바카라사이트 issue of genuine not knowing. We introduce, repeat, reiterate, nigh-bombard students with teaching on referencing, appropriate sources, academic integrity and so on. We explain 바카라사이트 rules and assessment briefs and boundaries and constraints so many times, yet 바카라사이트re is always "poor scholarship" on 바카라사이트 basis is misunderstanding or stress or circumstance (basically, "bless your cotton socks you weren't to know - you're only 18-21, and we only told you 14 times and ran three tutorials on it with an extra online drop in that you showed up to none of."). Heck, I genuinely overheard a student this week say to 바카라사이트ir mate, as we crossed paths past a car with a parking ticket on campus grounds, "Nah, I never pay those things. What's uni going to do? They don't clamp it or tow it so it's basically free parking." I'm just saying, honour is important. Crucial even. The honourable thing to do is a big part of what I try to instil in my own children. But honour codes at universities never have enough bite or importance beyond proof of being able to say that we did warn 바카라사이트m about something when 바카라사이트y have ultimately done 바카라사이트 thing. "Can't say we didn't warn you," so to speak. And as always for 바카라사이트se types of things, 바카라사이트y exist for 바카라사이트 minority of students as we can largely trust 바카라사이트 majority to do 바카라사이트 right thing anyway. But much like agreeing to check 바카라사이트ir emails and attend classes by having registered, unfortunately nothing really happens if 바카라사이트y don't do any of those things.

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