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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Okay, but here's the situation at the institution where someone I know teaches...

Students enroll with Disability Services (roughly 1/3 of the class) because they tell their doctor they have test anxiety. Doctor then gives them a notes saying "so-and-so has test anxiety". Nevermind the fact that anxiety around a test should be a normal reaction -- particularly tests you never prepared for.

They get presented with a buffet of options for what will help them "succeed". And THE STUDENT picks what they want. Triple time to complete their tests? Unlimited unsupervised bathroom breaks? Flexible scheduling (i.e. taking the test after everyone else got their results back & knows the answers)? Private testing rooms with no proctor? Ability to use AI "just for grammar"? It's all there...

Absolute raging trashfire...

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