One in six adults thought reducing or removing coursework would be the best way for schools to avoid the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI), according to a YouGov survey.<\/p>\n
The poll, which was commissioned by Cambridge University Press and Assessment, said 89% of adults thought it was “unacceptable” for pupils to use AI, but almost half said it was acceptable for improving punctuation and grammar.<\/p>\n
It came after Jill Duffy, the chief executive of exam board OCR, called for a co-ordinated national strategy on AI.<\/p>\n
“The public is clear that coursework is too important to lose, even in the age of AI,” Ms Duffy said.<\/p>\n
The poll of 2,221 UK adults found 46% agreed with using AI for punctuation and grammar in school coursework, but 44% did not.<\/p>\n
Only 16% thought reducing or removing coursework completed at home was the best way to avoid student AI misuse.<\/p>\n
Ms Duffy called for a strategy on AI after an independent curriculum and assessment review said it would consider reducing the “overall volume of assessment” at GCSE.<\/p>\n
An interim report, published in March, said the review had heard about the “risks” to standards and fairness concerning AI in relation to coursework.<\/p>\n
The review, which was chaired by education expert Becky Francis, will publish its final recommendations in the autumn.<\/p>\n
Ms Duffy said the findings should be seen as a challenge to find a way to “adapt coursework so it is fit for the AI century”. <\/p>\n
“AI is already in our schools and is not going away,” she said.<\/p>\n
“A co-ordinated national strategy, with funding to ensure no schools are left behind, will build public confidence in its transformational potential.<\/p>\n
“[AI] enables us to test different skills, and to reduce the intense volume of exams taken at 16.”<\/p>\n
The YouGov survey, which was carried out in June, suggested more than three in five UK adults also oppose teachers using AI to mark coursework, but 27% support it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One in six adults thought reducing or removing coursework would be the best way for schools to avoid…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-22955","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}