2024-05-15
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Stanford Survey and Turnitin Data: AI Use in Student Assignments on the rise
Unveiling the Trend of AI Use in Assignments & How it Impacts International Students pen_spark
Stanford Survey and Turnitin Data: AI Use in Student Assignments on the rise
Turnitin's AI detection tool has detected some AI use in about 1 out of 10 writing assignments reviewed over the past year, while only 3 out of 100 assignments were generated mostly by AI. This trend aligns with Stanford University's December survey findings that the percentage of students who admitted to cheating has remained flat since the advent of ChatGPT and other generative AI tools. In 11 percent of assignments run through the tool, at least 20% of each assignment had evidence of AI use in the writing. In 3 percent of the assignments, each assignment was made up of 80 percent or more of AI writing, which tracks closely with what the company was seeing just three months after it launched its AI detection tool.
However, a separate survey of educators has found that AI detection tools are becoming more popular with teachers, causing some experts to warn against fixating on plagiarism and cheating. Tara Nattrass, managing director of innovation and strategy at ISTE+ASCD, a nonprofit that offers content and professional development on educational technology and curriculum, said that schools should be teaching AI literacy while including students in drafting clear AI guidelines.
AI detection software actually uses AI to function, training on large amounts of machine- and human-created writing so that the software can ideally recognize differences between the two. Turnitin claims that its AI detector is 99 percent accurate at determining whether a document was written with AI, specifically ChatGPT, as long as the document was composed with at least 20 percent of AI writing.
However, a separate survey of educators has found that AI detection tools are becoming more popular with teachers, causing some experts to warn against fixating on plagiarism and cheating. Tara Nattrass, managing director of innovation and strategy at ISTE+ASCD, a nonprofit that offers content and professional development on educational technology and curriculum, said that schools should be teaching AI literacy while including students in drafting clear AI guidelines.
AI detection software actually uses AI to function, training on large amounts of machine- and human-created writing so that the software can ideally recognize differences between the two. Turnitin claims that its AI detector is 99 percent accurate at determining whether a document was written with AI, specifically ChatGPT, as long as the document was composed with at least 20 percent of AI writing.
