23 Sep 2024

Schools abandoning take home essays because of AI

From Checkpoint, 4:34 pm on 23 September 2024

Some schools are abandoning take-home essays and assignments because students are using artificial intelligence to cheat.The misuse of AI has even prompted changes to the national school qualification, the NCEA. But teachers say there is no point banning AI and instead, schools need to change the way they assess students, education correspondent John Gerritsen reports.