Nearly half of the largest universities and colleges have discovered suspected exam cheating with new AI bots, according to a survey conducted by TV4 Nyheterna. The vast majority believe that this will become more common in the future, which could mean that home exams are replaced by classroom exams and oral interviews. TV4 Nyheterna is testing having a chatbot answer a typical exam question. According to Stefan Rimm, who is a lecturer in rhetoric at Södertörn University, the bot could be approved, at least on the slightly less complicated questions: – The answer we get is well structured. The structure and layout is very similar to a good and approved home exam answer. Almost half find suspected cheating According to a survey for TV4 Nyheterna to which 13 of Sweden’s largest universities and colleges have responded, 46 percent have found suspected cases of AI cheating. – We have received signals about suspected cheating, says Ida Söderberg Tah, head of department at Södertörn University. What we’re doing now is we’re looking at it and analyzing it and then we’ll see where it lands. 12 out of 13 universities answer that they think this will become more common in the future – What we need to do now, continues Ida Söderberg Tah, is to be active, see what will happen and see how it will affect teaching and pedagogy. Home exams are becoming more and more problematic In many educations, students are examined with assignments or exams that they have to do at home, something that is now becoming more and more problematic. – In some cases, it can be difficult to determine whether it is a bot or a student who has responded, says Stefan Rimm. – The consequence is that you get through the training or pass the take-home exam with information that you did not produce yourself, says Smilla Arkell, one of Stefan’s students. Now, major changes may be underway on how to determine what students have actually learned. – I think, among other things, that we will use oral exams, I think that we will have more seminar activities and I also think that written assignments and classroom exams will become more common, says Stefan Rimm. More about exam cheating in the player above.
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The Al bot reveals widespread exam cheating – suspicious cases in several textbooks
