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Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered in-person final; scores fell 50% (arstechnica.com)
submitted 4 months ago by [B] to c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

How do you control for things like never having written an in person exam before

It's only one course, how could they possibly have never done an in-person exam before? They've made it to university; they would have done dozens before and during their time there.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know that's a good assumption anymore. These students are probably the ones who had zoom from home "school" through formative years, with Chromebooks pushed on them before that. Schools were dropping handwriting from curriculum long before LLM/agentic forms of AI.

    Heck, I was graduating high school around the time the first iPhones were coming out and I barely wrote. It was maybe 1-2 essays per school year max, not exactly enough for robust skill development. Exams were almost all multiple choice or 1-2 word short answers at most to make grading more efficient.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago

    So I work in higher ed and this is actually occam's razor - students will take advantage of any tool they can get their hands on (which is to say cheat) at the drop of a hat. And a lot of college courses are completely honor system, especially remote classes.

    Today's smart professors are using authorship tools and doing in-person exams for good reason.

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