Citing a survey of 1,000 undergraduate students, Fox News reports 92% percent of undergrads are using AI this year compared to 66% last year.
The survey was conducted by UK-based HEPI, the Higher Education Policy Institute, which concluded more students are becoming more proficient with AI and its capabilities.
Aware of cheating in their classrooms, some professors are choosing a back-to-basics approach by making students show proof of their own work. Stephen Cicirelli, an English professor at Saint Peters University in New Jersey, told Fox News he has a tool for detecting AI-written assignments: Google Assignments, the teacher-friendly software.
“You can track the document history, and it'll show you minute by minute how the student put the paper together," the professor explained.
Since the Google Assignments software can track how a paper was written and edited, it can also show if a student’s research paper went from non-existent to a completed classroom assignment.
Cicirelli told Fox he recently caught a student using AI for a research paper. After he gave her a failing grade, the student then submitted an apology – that was also written using AI technology.
In the survey, students told HEPI they use AI because it saves time and improves the quality of their work.
Eighty percent of students said their campuses have strict AI guidelines and policies, and 76% said their school can identify if it was used on a class assignment.
