Students are relying on AI so heavily that universities are being forced to fundamentally rethink how they grade their work.

England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students, is warning universities that they may need to replace traditional take-home essays and open-book exams with supervised assessments that prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to do their work.

AI-detection tools are too unreliable to consistently determine whether students have used the technology, the OfS said in a report published Wednesday.

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[–] 7 points 1 day ago (1 child)

As an educator with a Masters in this topic I am going to submit myself for possible pitchforks.

Exams have been shit for ages.

I will easily and immediately concede some exams by some professors some of the time are good. But generally? Most exams are crap.

Math Reasoning: If an exam is supposed to provide a snapshot into student learning, then the exam results should demonstrate that learning as a number.

Counter example: Consider an exam thst is cumulative. It contains 10 questions chosen by the professor. A student in the class has perfect knowledge of half the course material, and is perfectly impossible of getting the other half right (confidently in correct). This means that if the exam is to represent the students learning that student should score a 50. But if the professor chooses 10 questions outside this students knowledge set that student gets a zero.

Before you say "it's a fail either way" many mathematics programs have a passing grade on exams at 30% or higher so be careful with grade assumptions as well.

I'll post more later but these are time consuming and... Well I teach lol, I have limited free time.

Suffice to say I will get around to the AI part at some point.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    The problem is writing good tests and curriculum is extremely difficult. It takes extensive training and a team of people to make it passably decent.

    The vast majority of test are written or selected by the teacher with limited to no training on the subject. They have absolutely no clue how absolute shit it is.

    This is especially true at the university/college level where the professors are all trained in the field of study and have close to zero training in teaching.

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