There's just no way this'll get past the lawyers. I agree, it's a great way to assess students. I've been through them too, they are nerve wracking, but end up

There's just no way this'll get past the lawyers. I agree, it's a great way to assess students. I've been through them too, they are nerve wracking, but end up being a lot better than written. But the lawyers, man, they'd hate it. There's too much variability. Some students would get 'harder' questions than others. Some would get 'grilled' more in depth. Some would be asked to turn around and face a whiteboard more. Some students would say this is because I'm part of a certain category. And of those students, a lot would unfortunately be in the right. Because professors are just as biased as the rest of us, if not more so. So, if you'd want to do this, the lawyers would say you'd need to have at least one person of every imaginable category in the room giving questions. And it would need to be an open exam (Pence rule), and they'd like for the exam to be recorded too, video and audio. And you've got to use a rubric with standard questions, so we can make sure there's no bias. Which means you have to sequester those that completed from those that haven't, phones included. And the proctors have to be behind a screen. And a few dozen waivers, just to round things off. As others here have said, the expense would be huge. At least a handful of people, A/V techs, a revolving door of students, translators, the works. All just to end up asking students the exact same questions anyway.