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Why hand written? Wouldn't a one-on-one interview be a better way to establish a broad evaluation of competency.

• JoshTriplett 4mo ago
  > Wouldn't a one-on-one interview be a better way to establish a broad evaluation of competency. 1) Possibly, depending on the material, but most classes aren't looking for a "broad evaluation of competency", they're looking for the specific material taught. It'd make more sense as a graduation requirement: the equivalent of a dissertation but for undergraduate work. 2) Even in small classes (e.g. 20-30 students) that wouldn't scale, let alone the massive courses earlier in a curriculum or that are shared by many degrees (e.g. hundreds of students).
  • panicinducer 4mo ago
    Maybe not everything needs to "scale"? You're asking each student to spend well over 100 hours in lectures and study for each class. Surely you can find 20 or 30 minutes per student for evaluation.
    • JoshTriplett 4mo ago
      Please by all means direct more funding at universities, hire several times as many professors, and have them each teach half as many classes with a fraction of the students. The result would absolutely be an improvement. (That said, any kind of subjective assessment has its own pile of hazards compared to objective assessments.)
    • account42 4mo ago
      A problem with not scaling here is that just adding multiple examiners means that now there will be differences in how students are being graded depending on which examiner they get.
  • userbinator 4mo ago
    I think suspected cheaters should be subjected to an interview.