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> ChatGPT is literally changing how school will test their students, for a start. Here's a novel idea: test students using pen and paper?
by airstrike 4y ago
> ChatGPT is literally changing how school will test their students, for a start.
Here's a novel idea: test students using pen and paper?
- Mizza 4y agoOr, preferably, admit that testing wasn't a good idea to begin with and focus on optimizing children for learning, not test-taking.
- taftster 4y agoI don't even think we're just talking about children either. Test taking in academia (university and above) could stand a much needed fresh look. I am hopeful that a change happens in academia to prepare students for jobs, which is why they are going to school in the first place. Yes, students need to learn how to "think", but really they are wanting to get the technical skills to perform their duties more than anything. We have bestowed too much credence in traditional academia not useful to the average person or average job. College is a "game" for most students, and they put up going through the motions of testing, etc. for the sake of the diploma at the end. I hope we're going to enter a new era of what college means for those looking to get something different out of it.
- juve1996 4y agoAt some point you need to see what people know to measure their progress and help them.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 4y agoTeachers assign better scores to papers with better penmanship. I forget how strong the effect was, but using a keyboard does help equalize some biases.
- MonkeyMalarky 4y agoTypewriters for everyone!
- albert_e 4y agoKeyboards and screens in an exam hall then?
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 4y agoWhy equalize that bias?
- slaymaker1907 4y agoBecause there are a plethora of disabilities which make neat penmanship difficult.
- politician 4y agoScan the hand-written work back into a digital format and present the results to the teachers for evaluation in their preferred typeface.
- throwmeout123 4y agoIn Italy we test with pen and paper and the quality of italian schools is abysmal. The point is not the test, is the quality of the teachers. They are the only hope to form good humans, not some standardized test.