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.
Hi! Nerdy uni student here, it’s an 80 people classroom. People just sit in the back and use their phone during paper exams. They then go to class groupchat to boast about how clever they were for coming up with that idea…
Also since professor has actual research to do, exams are proctored by the teaching assistants who frankly don’t care. In fact TA’s openly use AI to grade homeworks.
May sound slightly biased, but I think the solution is people going “exams were not meant to be part of this system, or at least in the current state they are” and making some reforms.
Back in my day exam invigilators would immediately kick you out of the examination centre and report you to Student Administration for this.
Another nerdy uni student here. Our biggest venue has capacity for 320 students during tests. But we have enough invigilators and cameras that it’s impossible to use a phone during exams.
Faraday cage on the room. Your phone is now a glorified calculator.