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 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