I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated

  • kipo@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    If students can cheat on writing papers, why don’t we stop using it as a learning metric? Why not use in-person, timed tests instead?

    • LarsIsCool@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      In person timed tests suffer from people under performing because of external circumstances. Also we should consider chatgpt as a tool that can be used like a calculator. If the answer to a test can be easily retrieved for a widely available tool, the test is only measuring performance that is no longer required. Where possible, ideally measuring performance is based on their skill during a larger time period regardless of the tools they might use. For example repeated in-person peer review sessions (without a specific time slot) could both improve once performance and generating evidence of performance over time while reducing effort from the staff