Student Resources

Academic Integrity and Honesty

PAIR Framework for Thoughtful AI Use

To support intentional and transparent engagement with AI tools, students are encouraged to follow the PAIR Framework, adapted from Oguz A. Acar, professor, King’s College London:

• P – Problem Formulation
  Clearly define the task or question you are working on and identify what kind of help (if any) AI might appropriately provide.
  
  
• A – AI Tool Selection
  Choose an AI tool that fits the purpose of the task and complies with course expectations.
  
  
• I – Interaction
  Use the AI tool deliberately and critically, refining prompts and evaluating outputs rather than accepting responses at face value.
  
  
• R – Reflection
  Reflect on how AI contributed to your learning, what insights it provided, its limitations, and how your own thinking evolved through the process.
  
  

Using AI responsibly means remaining an active learner—questioning, analyzing, and reflecting—rather than outsourcing thinking to a tool.

AI Acknowledgement and Citation for Students

Students must be aware that, when using AI tools for assignments, papers, theses, and dissertations, they must both acknowledge the AI tool used and cite the information gathered while using it.

Acknowledgement 

To write an acknowledgement statement, students must

• Name the AI tool(s) used (for example, Copilot, Chat GPT, or Grammarly, etc.).
• Specify the date the AI tool was used.
• Describe how the AI tool was used (brainstorming, grammar check, organization, etc.).
• Include the exact prompts used.
• Share the page, paragraph, section, etc. within the assignment for which the AI tool was used or AI-generated information was included.

Generally, the AI Acknowledgement Statement is written on a separate page that precedes the assignment, thesis, or dissertation.

Check with your instructor for any further AI Acknowledgement guidelines.

Citation

Please use your discipline’s style guide when citing information gathered by using an AI tool (APA, Chicago, MLA, etc.).

Check with your instructor for any further AI citation guidelines.

Unauthorized Use of AI Tools

Students who do not properly acknowledge and cite the use of AI tools will be addressed through the university’s Scholars Code and Code of Conduct.

Sample AI Acknowledgement Table

When students are using more than one AI tool, or are using AI in more than one place in the assignment, they should include a table, such as the one below, in addition to their AI Acknowledgement Statement:

This sample table was taken from The University of Queensland’s Guide to Acknowledging and Referencing AI.

AI and Faculty Course Materials

Faculty invest significant time and expertise on their scholarship of teaching and preparing course materials; therefore, students must ask permission before using those course materials in any way not expressly allowed by the faculty member.

This means that students may not put course materials into AI, record lectures, use note-taking apps, make study guides or podcasts from course materials, etc. without first having the consent of the instructor.