2023-06-26 21:15:00
DISPATCH — In a French university institute, 120 first-year students will not see the color of the correction on their copy. Their teacher refused to go back behind ChatGPT.
“This is a class of around 120 first-year students (…) who had to submit a written document on hydrotherapy”, explained today Samuel Cruz-Lara, the director of the IUT Charlemagne of Nancy.
“When grading the marketing assignments, the teachers in charge of the correction realized that the students had made excessive use of ChatGPT: their copies did not include the slightest spelling error, or were composed of searched phrases” , continued Mr. Cruz-Lara.
“If we had had more time, we could have asked the students to explain themselves, which we did with some who half-acknowledged things. Except that we are at the end of the university year. and in terms of the calendar, it is complicated for us to react.”
In agreement with her other corrector colleagues, the professor responsible for the module decided not to correct the disputed written test.
“The students will still have a grade in this subject, they will not be penalized”, reassures the director. In the future, if it is difficult to control the use of this type of tool, the school plans to dialogue with the students about the benefits and risks involved. In addition, a modification of the rules is also under discussion: “We already had a paragraph on plagiarism, I will ask to add one concerning artificial intelligence type tools, the use of which will be sanctioned in the same way as plagiarism” .
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