Tag: academic-integrity
5 items with this tag.
A few thoughts on student use of AI
Tim Fawns published a LinkedIn post setting out 17 points about student use of AI, drawing on his experience as a researcher and educator. The points push back on the framing that positions students as cheating or avoiding learning, and ask for a more sophisticated understanding of what's actually happening. I've formatted Tim's LinkedIn post as a one-page PDF for easier sharing.
Talk is cheap: why structural assessment changes are needed for a time of GenAI
Source details Corbin, T., Dawson, P., & Liu, D. (2025). Talk is cheap: why structural assessment changes are needed for a time of GenAI.
Prompt injection
Prompt injection is a technique in which instructions embedded in text cause an AI system to follow them as commands. In educational contexts it has appeared as an AI detection mechanism in assessment — which raises sharper questions about authorisation and trust than it might initially seem.
AI detection in assessment: The security theatre of prompt injection
When educators embed hidden instructions in assessment materials to detect AI use, they import adversarial security thinking into educational relationships. This post examines what AI tripwires reveal about institutional assumptions (i.e. that assessment is about artifact authentication rather than learning measurement) and argues that this approach creates escalating countermeasure dynamics while only detecting carelessness, not genuine disengagement. The alternative requires rethinking what assessment is actually for in an era when artifact production has become trivially automatable.
A bitter lesson for higher education
Rich Sutton's 'Bitter Lesson' from AI research—that general methods leveraging computation outperform human-crafted knowledge—has a direct parallel in education. When AI can produce the kinds of artefacts that assessments have traditionally relied on, it exposes a fundamental problem we have long ignored: we were never really measuring learning, we were measuring the difficulty of producing certain artefacts. This post explores what the Bitter Lesson means for assessment design in health professions education, and why AI makes it impossible to continue pretending otherwise.