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Nothing quite beats a low key oral exam. The trick is that they don't scale.

• ModernMech 4y ago
  These days I give take home video exams. The students record themselves explaining their code for 5 minutes, which is about as long as it takes me to hand-grade a written exam. I can even play the video at 2x to cut the time in half. This scales at least to the size of my class (100 students on average, 3-4 hours isn't bad for grading an assignment).
  • johndough 4y ago
    Oral exams in person have the advantage that the students can not read out an AI-generated solution (or a solution purchased from somebody else). They have to come up with their own solution on the spot. For video recordings, they can cheat as much as they like.
  • nnoitra 4y ago
  • voxl 4y ago
    I like this idea, but had a morbid thought, what if students try to bribe teachers in video? A lot of teachers I know intentionally keep their open doors during office hours. They don't want the student to get ideas. One professor I know had a student drop a hundred on his desk and say something like "for our understanding" and then leave. So, it definitely happens. With video there are still ways that a student might make attempts to bribe a teacher, and it seems to be a vector of easier success because of how private the interaction is between the two individuals...