Tools such as ChatGPT can now draft model answers in a particular writing style, prompting concerns this makes it difficult to reliably use written work to assess knowledge.
Samia Kazi, co-founder of EdTeach training platform Global Childhood Academy, uploaded an NCFE level 3 Early Years Educator handbook to a premium version of ChatGPT and told it to use the learning outcomes in the handbook to structure the answer for a unit on child development. The chatbot produced a textbook response which it was then able to remodel to appear as the work of a student.
Written assignments form a key part of assessing a student’s knowledge in childcare qualifications. Kazi told Nursery World, ‘Students can use AI for all of that, therefore that whole qualification needs to change. This needs to be done yesterday’ she added, as ‘the young generation are getting really good at analysing [AI] and putting their own stamp onto it’.
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