frankbascombe.bsky.social
I am not Frank Bascombe.
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Blocked by one more now.
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Boom. Boom. Boom.
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Assessments based on personal experiences.
Assessments that focus on hyper local issues.
In person presentations with Q and A.
Assessments based on engagement with primary archival sources.
Assessments based on contributions to in class discussions.
For example.
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Fieldwork based assessments.
Assessments based on the collection of primary data.
Assessed practicals and laboratory based exercises.
Assessed performances.
Assessments based on a work or voluntary placement.
Viva voces.
Creative assessments such as the production of a portfolio of photos.
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I don't know right now what the solution is. But I will spend a huge amount of the next five years trying to find it, but I know that simply reverting to exams is not it.
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Any Armenian inflection?
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And sadly Musk misunderstood the Hitchhiker's Guide which didn't help any.
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When have I ever said AI cheating is OK? How many times do I have to say it is a problem that Universities are trying to address? How much clearer do I need to be? My concern is that we don't concede the decades of progress we have made with the simplistic notion that exams are an easy answer.
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I have never said it isn't a problem. It is a problem. That Universities are turning themselves inside out trying to address. The panacea is not exams though. Think about who benefits from exams. Private schools. And their support network (Tufton) has been working hard on this for 8 months now.
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I thought everyone knew the 'use AI to batter Universities' narrative had it's origins in Tufton Street. I guess not. Plenty, including the Guardian are willingly swallowing their message. Good work lads! Critical thought obviously isn't dead.
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Ignores the decades of evidence that exams favour middle and upper class students and disadvantage those from working class backgrounds. Not to mention the devastating effects they have on neuro diverse students. If that's 'daft', sign me up.
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They are not "allowing this to happen". Every University in the country is spending ungodly amounts of time and money trying to address this, without throwing away decades of pedagogic and social progress and simply reverting to an elitist assessment regime.
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Universities are not "allowing AI cheating". The very fact that 7000 cases have been caught should show this. They are investigating millions in trying to address the problem. And the majority of University funding comes from student fees.
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Government cannot make Universities revert to exams. They are constitutionally independent. Governments telling Universities what to do? Really?
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Exams. Just what the public school Right want. Chuck out all the social advancement achieved by decades of inclusive assessment developments? Brilliant! A naive stance that feeds directly into a powerful Right wing educational discourse.
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That would be an educational disaster. A massive retrograde step. And it isn't a government choice we're talking about here.
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Looks like you've sold out.
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Half a World Away.
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Good luck on them hills!
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Señor Woakes on song.
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Looks a bit dark over Bill's mother's.
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Brilliant Mr D!
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'Beta' males mate.
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Marks and Spencer's new range revealed.
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Didn't know Batman was from Elkview.
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Shove it.
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Pathetic willy waving.
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Just a load of Willy waving from a couple of insecure betas.
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Smart from a national cricket board? Come on.
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Nice work if you can get it.
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Population 183? Really?
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Nothing embodies the poverty and cruelty of Conservative thinking, and nothing will cost the country more in the long run, than shutting Sure Start. For this alone Osborne and Cameron should be ashamed.
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Which one's Bradley Wiggins?
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30 litres! That's almost an armful.
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One of the few upsides of his time as PM.
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And perhaps Mark Waugh was the most naturally talented of the three.
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What a fucking snowflake he is.
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RC for GC.
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Go RC.
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Unfunny and deeply annoying.
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Bostin' brutalism from Brazil.
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Someone's been waving the ugly stick around.
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An epic everyday.
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I was with it until the last sentence.
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The Cat of Bodmin.
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Go Pears 😂