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.
I’ve never had access to AI during an open book exam. What are these universities doing?
I think I had a math exam that was open book. IIRC I had to do the equations for many weeks to learn how to do them, and it didn’t matter if I was able to look up the examples, I wouldn’t have been able to show my work in a timely manner if I wasn’t already familiar with solving the equations.
I never had an open book exam at university. The text books literally contain the answers.
I had a professor say “if you know where to look in the book, you know where to find the right information.”
Basically, the people who needed the book for every answer didn’t have time to finish and the people that knew where every answer was were familiar enough with the material to find the answers.
Though, it’s not like you’re usually in life or death critical situations on an anthropological field site.
True, I hated open book exams because they were longer and harder, which is great for some applications but not for final exams
What’s a “book”?
It’s a metaphor for a restricted set of study materials. I’ve never brought an actual book to an open book exam, because physical textbooks are expensive AF
This makes me feel old.
We had to learn formula, and I think now they are given to students in their exams. Books were cheaper though.
Now get off my lawn!
I think this was a good change. Our math tests are always completely closed book (with no calculator)
Some other engineering tests allow bringing exactly one A4 sheet to the venue that we’ve prepared beforehand. Relying on it is a last resort, since those tests have severe time constraints
Exactly one module (software engineering) allows us to print out as many notes as we want, to compensate for the fact that there’s just way too much theory to learn in one semester, and also for the many rote recall questions in the tests. This is one of the most poorly run modules, imo
Can’t really do an exam without the sine and cosine tables.
Oh yeah, I remember the little book with the sun, cos, tan and log values.
But you still had to remember the formula to use them correctly.