Academic Integrity

General Guidelines

Recognizing that a zero-tolerance policy toward any use of any GenAI tool for any purpose is likely unenforceable, many professors have opted to permit some tool use, defining how these tools can and cannot be used, and showing students how they are best used. Teaching students to use ChatGPT as a brainstorming partner, or as a helper to refine their ideas, while still insisting that the final written product be that of the student, is likely the most achievable. AI for Education offers a Student Guide for AI Use reflecting this approach.

Author: AI for education. Title: A guide for students: should I use AI? This is a flowchart that asks the question: Why do you want to use an AI chatbot? If the answer is ‘I want it to help me get started on an assignment,’ or ‘I want it to help me improve what I’ve already done,’ or ‘I want it to explain an idea in simpler terms or in a different way,” then the answer is ‘Yes,’ the flowchart says you should use it. You need to ‘ask your teacher and check your handbook to ensure that it is acceptable.’ Then you need to ‘use an appropriate AI tool and track your work.’ Then you must ‘double check your work for hallucinations and bias.’ Then you must ‘cite the use of the tool and describe how you used it.’ If the answer to Why do you want to use an AI chatbot? is ‘Help with my research and find facts, quotes or other resources,’ the answer is ‘Yes, but’.... ‘use a generative search tool like perplexity to lower inaccuracies,’ then ‘double check your work for hallucinations and bias,’ then ‘cite the use of the tool and describe how you used it.’ If the answer to Why do you want to use an AI chatbot? Is ‘fully complete an assignment for me,’ then the answer is ‘No’ you should not use an AI chatbot. ‘If AI is doing the work for you, you're missing the learning. Try another approach.’ Key Vocabulary: Hallucination: when Gen AI tools provide incorrect or made-up information. Bias: Gen AI tools are trained on data from the internet which is not always fair or balanced. Citing AI: When citing AI provide the name of the tools, how we have used it and the date utilized. This is version two updated January 16 2024. Source is Aiforeducation.io

 

In a subsequent section, we’ll look at some approaches to assessment that mitigate (and even leverage) the use of GenAI tools by students in assignments.

 

 

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