CXC on alert for cheats

As the buzz about ChatGPT intensifies, the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has added its voice to the conversation, underscoring that "any form of cheating is a big concern" for the regional exam body. The artificial intelligence chatbot, which was launched in November 2022, is capable of generating impressively detailed humanlike written text, and has passed law and business school exams. But CXC Director of Operations Dr Nicole Manning says, based on the design of the School Based Assessment (SBA), a candidate's competence should not be determined from one assignment. "The SBA has both a formative and summative dimension. In relation to the formative dimension, it is expected that the teacher's focus would really be on assessment for learning, as such, facilitating the assessment of skills and competencies not otherwise easily assessed in the final examinations administered in our January or May/June sittings," Manning told The Sunday Gleaner. She explained that the SBA process is expected to assess skills such as complex decision making, communication, collaboration, creativity and innovation.