Ever since the technology company OpenAI launched its chatbot ChatGPT in November, artificial intelligence has become available to more and more people. If you paste an assignment text into ChatGPT, it is quite possible to get an academic answer in return. It can achieve good grades in school and in higher education. This leaves room for cheating which is difficult to detect. Many applications in academia Josefine Stokland (25), Cathrine Christensen (26) and Cathrine Fagerland (25) are all studying economics at the University of Stavanger. When asked if they have ever tested ChatGPT, they say in unison: – We use it now! We use it now as we write the master’s. news asked Chat GPT how the education sector should deal with the robot. We received five points in response. Graphics: SCREEN DUMP / CHATGPT Christensen believes that ChatGPT is a positive digital tool that has several uses. – I have tried to find issues for the master’s through it, and I have asked it to retrieve relevant articles that I can use as sources. – Home exam most challenging Tom Ryen is head of department for the Faculty of Science and Technology at the University of Stavanger (UiS). – It is with home exams that it can now become more challenging, he says. Tom Ryen runs the Stavanger AI Lab. This is where research and development in the field of artificial intelligence at UiS come together. Photo: Lars Arne Lindland / news Ryen is in a special situation. He works with artificial intelligence on a daily basis, and he is also employed by the university. Both the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Faculty of Education and Humanities have been visited by the head of department. Home exams are used at both faculties. Ryen talks about how the faculties can relate to KI in a constructive way. – Criticism of sources and good judgment are human qualities that will be used more now, claims Ryen. There are programs that can reveal texts generated by AI. However, these can never be 100 per cent secure, he says. – They can detect the use of AI with approximately 90 percent probability. It is not good enough in terms of plagiarism check. In addition, students who have been honest can be suspected. Therefore, I would advise against the use of such detection tools. Will ensure equal practice The Ministry of Education is considering national guidelines to address the problem, says Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel. He is state secretary for Research and Higher Education Minister Ola Borten Moe. Oddmund Løkensgard Hoel (Sp), State Secretary in the Ministry of Education. Photo: Ragne B. Lysaker / Press photo – It is important that the universities and colleges collaborate on how they handle this in order to get the most equal practice possible for the students, he says, but does not rule out that there may be a set of regulations. – We will consider whether a national guide should be created for the treatment of cheating cases to contribute to this coordination, he says. Traditional exams are threatened with extinction ChatGPT has also become a talking point in the school system. At St. Olav upper secondary school in Stavanger, the staff hope that chatbots can become a useful aid in schoolwork. Tests at school could reveal it, but lecturer Inge Rykkje wants more school tests. – The exam, as we are used to, is about to become a dinosaur. “Press writing” for five hours does not give you mastery of life. Inge Rykkje, Anne Lise Fjeldså and Ellen-Kristine Endresen Helgeland are teachers at St. Olav Secondary School in Stavanger. Photo: LARS ARNE LINDLAND / news Oral, pen and paper The teachers believe that it is possible to replace traditional forms of examination with more oral assessments, but that this will again require an increased use of resources and time for the employees. Head of department Ellen-Kristine Endresen Helgeland wants to find good ways to use AI in teaching. – Being the police and trying to find out if someone has used ChatGPT is like fighting windmills backwards into the future. It will become an aid in the same way as when the calculator arrived. Adjunct professor Anne Lise Fjeldså nevertheless recognizes that the school must adapt to avoid new technology being used for cheating. – We already have the translation platform Apertium, which the students have used to translate from Bokmål to Nynorsk. When the students started using it, we noticed that Nynorsk had suddenly become so good. Even then, you had to think anew. At the latest today, I spoke to a teacher who had a Nynorsk test with pen and paper. So far no change in the law Hedda Birgitte Huse in the Directorate of Education believes that school tests with limited aids will become more relevant in primary and secondary schools, but points out that the assessment field is in constant development. – Limiting the use of aids can probably not be the only solution here, especially when it comes to assessment that will help students further in their learning. Although the Ministry of Education is considering a national guide for higher education, it is not currently relevant to make changes to the Universities and Colleges Act, according to State Secretary Hoel. – We have so far concluded that there is no need for legislative changes. Technology and ways to cheat are constantly evolving. The law says something about what reactions the institutions can use in cases of cheating, but regulating in detail what counts as cheating would be too rigid. At the University of Stavanger, Tom Ryen agrees. – It is good that we avoid detailed regulation from ministry level. Then we have to see if there is eventually a need for changes in regulations and rules. Limits to cheating The economics students at UiS draw a line in the sand between what they think is cheating and sensible use. Cheating is “cut, copy and paste”, but if you manage to bake it into your own material, then it is only an aid, claims Cathrine Fagerland. Josefine Stokland has the following appeal to educational institutions: – Universities must change the way they create academic assignments. ChatGPT should not be painted black. It’s a top-notch tool, so you’d better turn the tasks around.
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