Brooks and Kirk

Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Academic Integrity and Assessment Malpractice.

 

Background 

At Brooks and Kirk, our assessors have been encountering a larger than usual amount of incidence relating to assessment malpractice. We thought it was useful to remind all learners as to what Assessment Malpractice is and the consequences if Assessment Malpractice is identified and academic Integrity has been compromised.

This notice is to supplement your Terms of Training policy document as located within your induction. Within this policy we detail:

Candidate Malpractice:

• • - Directly copying past or present learners’ work
    
    
  • - Submitting another learners’ work as their own
    
    
• - Pretending to be someone else
  
  
• - Sending, printing or distributing original evidence to third parties, individuals or companies for any reason or means
  
  
• - Fabrication of evidence or asking Brooks and Kirk to omit the truth from third parties whom have a vested interest in the course e.g. funders of the course
  
  
• · Altering certificates
  
  
• · Falsifying or fabrication of data, feedback, results or any other assessment records
  
  
• · Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) including Large Language Models (LLMs) to produce, modify or manipulate assessment evidence in any form including text, images or any other form of multimedia.

 

Artificial Intelligence (AI) 

We must draw your attention to and expand upon the final bullet point specifically. If AI tools have been used to influence, write or produce any aspect of your assessment evidence, this will constitute assessment malpractice. AI tools could include, but not limited to, Chat GTP, Google Bard, Bing Chat, or other large language model (LLM). This will be treated exactly the same way as the most egregious forms of assessment malpractice.

At Brooks and Kirk, we use a variety of advanced AI detection tools and if evidence is found to contain AI generated content, it will be acted upon accordingly in accordance with our Assessment Malpractice policy.
 

What are the consequences if Candidate Malpractice has been identified? 

If after investigation there is clear evidence of, and deliberate act(s) of assessment malpractice, this will usually result in swift and immediate withdrawal from all courses the learner is registered to complete with us. If an employer has paid or procured the training on the candidates’ behalf, it is likely they will be informed.  If the training has been self-funded, they will not receive a refund and any tuition fees still outstanding will be collected as usual.

If it is an isolated incident or a genuine error, then additional training may be issued and a restriction of specific assessment methods may be imposed. We must highlight however, that there are some specific types of assessment malpractice that can’t possibly be classed as a ‘genuine error’. It is likely that the submission of AI generated assessment content is indeed a deliberate act similarly as changing the name of somebody else’s submission and presenting it as a learner’s own work.

Closing thoughts 

As trainee assessors, trainee teachers / tutors and trainee IQAs are responsible to certifying and training others, it is therefore even more imperative that they upheld academic integrity in all aspects of their work.

The assessment team at Brooks and Kirk are not simply checking to see if a learner can gather and present text related to the subject task or set of criteria, they are there to check to see if a learner has the required knowledge skills and behaviors that the qualification(s) require.   

I confirm I have read the following information above, and I agree to uphold academic integrity. 

I accept all policies located within my induction in the document titled “Learning Contract - Policies, Procedures, Appeals and Complaints Documentation”

I confirm that I will ask the Brooks and Kirk team for advice if I am unsure of any of the above.