Rachel Forsyth

@rmforsyth
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Academic developer, interested in assessment, inclusion, recognition of teaching in higher education. PFHEA. I wrote a book for anyone interested in university assessment, and blog irregularly on the same topic 👇
Confident Assessment in HEhttps://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/confident-assessment-in-higher-education/book277685
Student engagementhttps://sehej.raise-network.com/raise
Rachel ForsythDec 9, 2022
Show threadLilian EdwardsDec 9, 2022

"the real skill in the homework assignment will be in verifying the answers the system churns out — learning how to be a verifier and an editor, instead of a regurgitator."

The question is are universities willing to recognise we've flipped and this is what we need to do?

Ive read enough thought free Frankensteinian Internet cut and paste essays for the rest of my life. Lets do something ELSE

Rachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
Dr. Casey FieslerDec 8, 2022
I asked #ChatGPT: "is it ethical to build an AI that students could use to cheat on their homework, even if that was not the intended use case of the AI?" And it said no. But then to this follow-up, it makes a number of suggestions for mitigating harm, none of which appear to be in place. (Maybe the TOS suggestion, which is the least useful one anyway, if cheating falls under the broad umbrella of "deception.")
Rachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
Martin ComptonDec 8, 2022
Judging by the wide eyed horror many of my academic colleagues are greeting #OpenAI #GTP3 potentials I think I need to get some Douglas Adams inspired badges made up
Show threadRachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
@compton it's not going to be easy. Those exam papers hold strangely high value.
Rachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
Show threadJulie GoldbergDec 7, 2022
UPDATE! This morning, I am playing with https://huggingface.co/openai-detector/, which can predict the odds that a given text is generated with AI. So far, it has detected prose accurately, but failed to notice that the two sonnets about the ruins of a medieval castle I asked #ChatGPT to generate yesterday were fakes. #education #assessment
GPT-2 Output Detector

Rachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
Schrödinger's PratDec 8, 2022
If AI is an extreme existential threat to the way universities assess, then it necessitates an extreme solution: kill the motivation to cheat, and stop formally grading.
Show threadRachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
@compton edited - thank you mastodon!
Show threadRachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
@compton Agreed. Is this really all we expect of our students? https://assessmentinhe.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/robot-generated-submissions/
Robot-generated submissions

Assessment in Higher Education
Rachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
Martin ComptonDec 8, 2022
Final though (for this morning) on new #OpenAI resources...I think secondary school (age 11-18 in UK) assessment (especially homework for the year 9s upwards -roughly age 13 in UK) needs to change in hue and purpose sooner rather than later
Rachel ForsythDec 8, 2022
Do we need to clutch our pearls about AI being available to our students, or can we take this opportunity to stop getting them to churn out formulaic stuff anyway? My simplistic debate starter is here, and I hope you argue with me about it https://assessmentinhe.wordpress.com/2022/12/08/robot-generated-submissions #assessment #OpenAI #HigherEducation
Robot-generated submissions

Assessment in Higher Education