Use and misuse of GenAI in assessment: who needs guidelines?
- Date
- Thursday 12 December 2024
- Time
- Address
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Lipsius
Cleveringaplaats 1
2311 BD Leiden - Room
- 1.21
Do Humanities students have a good understanding of what is acceptable and inacceptable use of Generative AI (GenAI) in making assignments? Whose responsibility is it to set clear rules and guidelines; the Faculty or the examiners themselves? And should the use GenAI in assignments be fully banned in the first year of our bachelor’s programmes?
Two years after the introduction of easily available GenAI tools, universities continue to navigate a complex landscape regarding academic guidelines. With regard to the use of GenAI in assignments/assessments, Leiden University has issued minimal guidelines for students, and all lecturers are expected to discuss with their students what GenAI use is and is not acceptable in their courses.
This rather broadly defined policy may result in many students remaining uncertain about what is and what is not allowed, or in them unintentionally committing fraud. And many examiners may not yet feel sufficiently equipped to set clear guidelines for their assessments or they may expect the Faculty or University to do this for them. It may also mean that there are no clear guidelines within a degree programme, so that students do not know what to expect, or are confronted with what they see as contradictory guidelines.
In this meeting, we will discuss with examiners and some students the pros and cons of clear, detailed Faculty-wide or programme-specific guidelines, the space that examiners need to manoeuvre within those guidelines, and the transparency of the do's and don'ts towards students.
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