#academic-integrity

#academic-integrity

In today's competitive higher education landscape, universities and academic publishers must uphold content credibility and trust. As the global eLearning market is projected to reach $840.11 billion by 2030, the demand for robust QA services in education is rapidly increasing. The rise of digital learning and AI tools has introduced new challenges to maintaining academic integrity. According to the International Center for Academic Integrity, 65-75% of undergraduates admit to cheating at least once, while 62% have cheated on written assignments.

The Atlantic recently ran an article, Accommodation Nation, on this issue. Their research found that at schools such as Brown and Harvard, more than 20 percent of undergraduates are registered as disabled. At Stanford, that figure is 38 percent of undergraduates. Meanwhile, at the University of Chicago, the number of students with accommodations has more than tripled over the past eight years, and at UC Berkeley, it has nearly quintupled over the past 15 years.

The assignment in question was supposed to be a reaction to an academic article on gender. But the paper written by junior Samantha Fulnecky failed to provide empirical evidence or even citations for her own beliefs, resulting in her failing grade. The essay was turned in on November 9. The teaching assistant - whose name Truthout is withholding due to privacy and harassment concerns - gave Fulnecky a 0 out of 25 points, stating that the student's editorializing was not accompanied by an evidence-based approach.

AI companies know that children are the future - of their business model. The industry doesn't hide their attempts to hook the youth on their products through well-timed promotional offers, discounts, and referral programs. "Here to help you through finals," OpenAI said during a giveaway of ChatGPT Plus to college students. Students get free yearlong access to Google's and Perplexity's pricey AI products. Perplexity even pays referrers $20 for each US student that it gets to download its AI browser Comet.

"While I acknowledge that a small number of students may have extensive prior coding experience,"

AI writing often maintains a formal or neutral tone, lacking the personality and energy found in human communication, making it easily recognizable.

The issue isn't really about changing the grade THIS paper got - schools shouldn't generally change grades after the fact - it's what the hell is the school doing to prospectively address a professor who thinks this kind of paper is good.