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.
In the pre-AI age, I think take home tests were fine. However they were generally much harder than a similar in person exam on the same material. I remember one professor gave the advice “if you are given the option between a take home exam and an in person classroom exam, always take the latter. Since the former doesn’t have as tight of a time limit as the latter does, and will almost always be far more challenging” (or something to that effect)
That guy didn’t see my heat transfer final during junior year. Some of the other students were crying at how bad it was
Lol, that doesn’t mean that in person exams will be easy. This was my linear algebra professor, who had very difficult in person exams.