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I'm a professor and up to this semester I've required a paper to summarize some area. I've already decided (before this was posted) to stop requiring them. It's
by dwheeler 3y ago
I'm a professor and up to this semester I've required a paper to summarize some area. I've already decided (before this was posted) to stop requiring them. It's too easy to create a paper that summarizes material without learning anything.
- tjr 3y agoWhat will you do now instead?
- xwdv 3y agoOral exams.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoMultimodal LLM Cyrano de Bergerac
- willdough 3y agoHave a professor friend who says the same: oral exams are coming back to his classes. If you don't pass the oral, you don't pass the class.
- justinzollars 3y agoSeems like an oral exam would be interesting. Or base the grade on ability to have conversations on the subject?
- isaacremuant 3y agoThis is good. Most of what chatgpt can facilitate automate wasn't a good evaluation of knowledge/skills acquisition anyway.
- Waterluvian 3y agoEveryone learns and tests differently, so this is no panacea. But I absolutely loved this one exam I had where the prof had me in for a 20 min chat about a topic. An oral exam, but it was so informal and felt like a comfy chat. Written tests are torture for me. But chatting about what I’ve learned?! Let’s go!
- spydum 3y agoWonder how many teachers/professors have considered using chatgpt to grade papers (turn this tech around)? Like you (or your grad assistants) could absolutely help your crazy workloads the same way.
- zzedd 3y agoi was a university lecturer teaching a large foundation subject. at the start of semester i would show them how to plagiarise, summarise and obfuscate an essay — on-screen in real-time. it was lots of fun. we also showed them how our assessment practices were resistant to cheating (using a mixture of oral presentations, reflective writing, monitored testing and group moderation). it seemed to work well with very little plagiarism — except for those students who ignored (or missed) the message.