> Last year, when I was administering a test, I said that they were allowed to use any IDE they wanted, but they could not use any AI assistance. I am pretty convinced one student just copypasted my test questions into ChatGPT or BingAI and then copied the answers. I didn't have a way to prove it so I had to give him the benefit of the doubt and grade it assuming he did it honestly.
If I were a teacher, I would have asked the popular bullshit generators to generate solutions for the test questions, and if a student’s solutions were very similar, I’d have them do some 1:1 live-coding to prove their innocence.
I did actually try and get ChatGPT and BingAI and Google Bard to generate it. I didn’t know about Claude at the time.
The issue is that the thing he submitted was correct, so I was going completely off “vibes”; I never got it dead-to-rights with AI generating a one-for-one match. It got pretty similar, and ChatGPT text does have kind of a recognizable style to it, but I didn’t feel comfortable reporting a student for cheating and risking them getting expelled if I wasn’t 100% sure.
I might have tried to get him to do a one on one coding session, but this was the final exam and literally three hours after it I had to fly to the UK for an unrelated trip for three weeks. Grades were due in one week, so I didn’t really have a means of testing him.
If I were a teacher, I would have asked the popular bullshit generators to generate solutions for the test questions, and if a student’s solutions were very similar, I’d have them do some 1:1 live-coding to prove their innocence.