Do we resist developments in technology in education or do we embrace them? This can be a real issue for the integrity of tests and other forms of assessment. This keynote presentation, delivered at the 2020 ATP Security Summit, considers the issues.

1. Is Resistance Useless?
Practical Academic Integrity
Considerations in the Age of
Artificial Intelligence
Keynote presentation for 2022 ATP Security Summit
11 October 2022
Dr Thomas Lancaster, Imperial College London

2. “Resistance is Useless”
AI generated Vogon and
Cyberman hybrid

3. Dr Thomas Lancaster
Computer Scientist
Academic Integrity
Researcher
http://www.thomaslancaster.co.uk
@DrLancaster

4. My Research Journey
Can we detect
student plagiarism?

5. My Research Journey
How do we address
contract cheating?

6. My Research Journey
Can we work with
artificial intelligence in
education?
https://www.universitas.cz/en/people/7936-thesis-from-kenya-written-instead-of-you-
for-money-people-are-no-longer-ashamed-of-cheating-warns-thomas-lancaster
“The standard of academic writing
produced using artificial intelligence
techniques is getting better.”

7. I try to research
academic integrity…
academic
integrity

8. Most often I research a lack
of academic integrity…
academic
integrity
student
cheating

9. We are
fascinated by
cheating

10. Book titled The Eudaemonic Pie in the United States
We see technology
and ingenuity

11. Cheating
technology
has got
harder to
detect

12. The news is
full of
cheating
scandals

13. Some cheating methods
…and many more
Exam devices
Faked research
Exam impersonation
Collusion
Plagiarism
File sharing sites
Contract cheating
Automatic paraphrasing
Social engineering
Misrepresented effort
Text generation

14. There are
many ways
people can
get unfair
results
Draft Guidelines for Technology-
Based Assessment
https://www.testpublishers.org/assets/TBA%20Gui
delines%203-14-2022%20draft%20numbered.pdf

15. Cheating is
mostly
harmless?

16. Does
anyone
lose out?

17. Why do
students
cheat?

19. Amigud, A. and Lancaster, T., 2019. 246 reasons to cheat: An analysis of students’ reasons for
seeking to outsource academic work. Computers & Education, 134, pp.98-107.
Students reach their limits…

20. Students do not feel prepared
South East European Project on Policies for Academic Integrity
http://www.plagiarism.cz/seeppai
“Maybe it’s the mistake of
teachers and professors?
They don’t teach students
how to write proper work.”

22. Students can become dependent on
cheating
Clarke, R. and Lancaster, T., 2006, June. Eliminating the successor to plagiarism? Identifying the
usage of contract cheating sites. Proceedings of 2nd International Plagiarism Conference (pp. 19-21).
Northumbria Learning Press.
Our original 2006 study of RentACoder.com
found students requesting assignments
repeatedly

23. risk reward

24. risk reward

25. A
financial
decision

28. Faster
than
seven
and a half
million
years…

29. Don’t Panic!

30. Consider the stakes

31. Have
support in
place

32. Help students to
see the benefits of
ethics and integrity

33. Collaborate
with students
as our partners

34. Assessment security means
more than just detection

35. Resist or Evolve?

36. We can act with
intelligence and
integrity!