How to Grade Papers Written by AI
The only answer to more tech is more human investment
I finally received one. It was clear as day.
A student in my Propaganda course at Queens College who had barely been able to construct a sentence all semester turned in a final paper with perfect organization and zero punctuation errors. It was as if someone else had written the paper.
That someone was AI.
In previous semesters, I had occasionally encountered papers downloaded from web-based services or simply cut and paste from essays, articles, or even Wikipedia. They were easiest enough to find with a simple web search. As if wanting to be caught, some students have even turned in papers written by other students for previous semesters of my course.
Because I teach at a public college, most of my students are not wealthy to hire tutors or the online academic version of task rabbits to write their papers for them. (A friend of mine who teaches at an elite high school once challenged a student to answer a few basic questions about such a paper to see if he even understood what was on the page. The student’s parents complained, and the teacher was put on suspension for traumatizing the boy.)
ChatGPT levels the playing field, giving students without the money to pay for…
