Generative Artificial Intelligence – use in the RoSA and HSC
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) by students in formal RoSA and HSC assessments must abide by existing NESA rules governing academic integrity.
- Effective
- Immediately
- Reference
- NESA 27/24
Who needs to read this?
- Principals
- Deputy principals
- Assistant principals
- Primary teachers
- Secondary teachers
- Curriculum coordinators
- HSC coordinators
- HSC minimum standard online test coordinators
- Head teachers
- Year advisers
- Present Years 10–12 students
The unapproved use of AI in the completion of assessment tasks is a breach of academic integrity. All work presented in assessment tasks and external examinations (including submitted works and practical examinations) must be a student’s own or must be acknowledged appropriately.
NESA advises that schools should incorporate instruction on how to acknowledge all materials appropriately, including AI, in alignment with NESA’s published guidelines.
NESA also provides resources to support the teaching of correct source referencing. All students must have completed the compulsory All My Own Work (AMOW) topic covering ethical use of AI (or its equivalent) before being entered in a Preliminary and/or HSC course, and for the award of the HSC.
Schools should have practices in place ensuring that students have confidence that plagiarism controls will be fairly applied.
Notice information
- Topic
- Curriculum, HSC, Record of School Achievement, Teaching resources
- Learning Area
- Creative Arts, English, HSIE, Languages, Life Skills, Mathematics, PDHPE, Science, Technological and Applied Studies
- Stages
- Stage 4 (Years 7 and 8), Stage 5 (Years 9 and 10), Stage 6 (Years 11 and 12)