The ripple effect: How exam misconduct can impact student remediation
Student remediation is the process of identifying and addressing areas where students are struggling. It lets educators support students with targeted interventions to improve their understanding and academic performance.
While the ‘addressing’ side of student remediation is fairly straightforward, the ‘identifying’ side of the equation is becoming harder.
With artificial intelligence and other tools becoming increasingly commonplace, students are more able to mask gaps in their learning and comprehension. A quick prompt in ChatGPT or similar can generate pass-grade content that gives the illusion of understanding.
At an individual level, this sort of assessment and exam misconduct makes it harder to see when students are experiencing challenges – or to support them to achieve a deeper understanding of a subject.
At an institutional level, it can seriously undermine your data integrity, leading to a distorted view of learning outcomes, and obscuring potential opportunities to improve teaching methods and curricula.