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Ok be honest, candidates. I really love this set of questions, I’ve been considering shifting my current interview style to these questions - I think they really give you an idea of who this person would be within the work setting. But the questions almost feel too deep for a recruiter to ask. What would you think if a recruiter took a different path and asked these questions instead of the usual ones?
https://blog.shrm.org/blog/9-interesting-interview-questions-that-actually-reveal-a-lot-about-candidat
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Your brain is the best one. None of the online ones are super accurate and there are lawsuits aplenty against teachers who use, accuse, get sued.
A couple of tricks:
* Straight up ask the kid. I’ve asked, “Is there something you want to tell me about this paper?” You’d be surprised how many admit it within one or two or three questions.
* Ask kids, “If I were to put this through an AI checker, what would it tell me?” They don’t have to know you haven’t—or have.
* Look for the longer em dash. For some reason, AI loves to use it. I’ve had papers with like six of them—and I haven’t taught it yet!
* Vocabulary above the writer’s level. Ask them to define the words, concepts.
* Have them write a paragraph, right then, no looking, about what their paper says. In an argumentative essay, reasons for and against.
* Semicolon use. Again, AI seems to love the semicolon.
* If writing a creative story, AI often uses this one girl’s name (can’t recall it), and sets it in the woods.
* I’ve heard some teachers bury a 1-point, white text-color direction within their essay directions on Google Docs to catch students who copy-and-paste the directions into the AI directions box. Something like “include the word banana three times in the essay.” I haven’t tried it, but some teachers say it works.
* It doesn’t “feel human.”
I’m sure there are a gazillion other tricks, but these are a few. 🤷
Use paper and pencil, then you will see what is real & true.
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I think AI written things read so unnatural. I don’t know of any free resource though. Sorry.
Google classroom has a detection system you checkbox when you create your assignments.
Also, I had two students cut and paste on a google form. Their answers were word for word (verbatim)
Which I could show them on the smart board without revealing their identity. 😞