Academic Honesty at Grinnell

Introduction

All Tutorials are required to cover Grinnell’s policies on academic honesty as expressed in the Academic Honesty handbook. The cornerstone of academic honesty is that you openly acknowledge where your ideas and assistance come from.

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Activity (part 1)

For the first ~45 minutes you will, as a group of 2 (or 3), come up with a 3-sentence summary of the following sections of the Academic Honesty handbook. If your group is an even number, you are responsible for only the even bullets. Similarly, if your group is an odd number, you should only work on summarizing the only the odd bullets.

1. HONESTY IN ACADEMIC WORK - starting at the beginning of this section and ending at the sentence “The Committee on Academic Standing’s Guidelines for Academic Honesty Outcomes are available upon request from the Office of the Registrar.”
2. Assumptions about Work You Submit - everything under this heading.
3. Ethical Use of Sources to Avoid Plagiarism - starting at the beginning of this section and ending after the phrase “… you must provide a clearly structured record of all your sources at the end of your project.”
4. Collaboration and Acknowledgement - starting with “Your participation in a scholarly …” and ending at “.. violates the rules of an assignment set by an instructor”
5. Process for Review of Alleged Violations of the Honesty Policy - the entirety of this section, ending at “… a dismissed student the notation remains”
6. Appealing a Decision of the Committee on Academic Standing - the entirety of this section, ending at “… of the Committee on Academic Standing directly to the President”

Please make sure your summaries are free of typos and submit them at the following link.

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Activity (part 2)

For approximately 15-minutes:

• After our 10-minute break I will share with everyone a document containing both the summaries written by groups in part 1 and summaries written by artificial intelligence (Chat GPT-3.5)
• For each numbered summary in this document, you should indicate whether you believe it was written by a group in our class or by AI. Please skip over the summaries that your group wrote.
• After labeling/annotating each numbered summary, you should prepare a brief rationale for how you decided whether something was written by AI or a classmate.

Next:

• We will see the “ground truth” label of each summary.
  • You should count how many summaries you correctly classified, again being careful to exclude the summaries you wrote.
  • You should also count how many summaries you incorrectly classified.

Finally, we’ll see if any groups have an ability to correctly classify summaries, but to do so we’d need to argue the number you correctly classified would be unlikely to happen by coincide if you were randomly guessing. To do this, consider the following questions:

1. If you were randomly guessing, how many correct classifications would you expect to get? Why?
2. Suppose someone correctly classifies 60% of the summaries they were given. Can you rule out the possibility that they were randomly guessing?
3. Is there are way that coin flips could be used to evaluate whether someone is unlikely to be randomly guessing? Briefly explain.

To conclude, we’ll use this web app to explore our results.

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Assignment

Before coming to class on Thursday:

1. Read the section of the Academic Honesty Booklet on quotation (if you haven’t done so already)
2. Complete this short assignment on quotation