Yeah if my uni capitulates like that and won't even allow unit co-ordinators the freedom to specify policies for their subjects, I'd be looking for an exit myself
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My biggest worry is that essays will be discouraged. In my field writing is thinking and we shouldn’t deny the skill to most students just because some will cheat themselves out of it
I’m sure they do in places. For me, they died with Covid distance learning - moved to take-home exams, open book by necessity, which are really shorter essays with shorter due dates and no expectation of research.
This is assessing ability to understand and make a argument rather than recall
I have never done an exam in history since finishing high school 20 years ago. In polsci, I had handwritten exams in 2006–08. I am *very* reluctant to consider exams: they're poor for extended writing, forget primary research, and it encourages the misconception that history is just names and dates
There seem to be several arguments for it, all of which are deeply frustrating. One I've heard a lot is, if we don't have documentary evidence of AI use we can't do anything (so we have to accept it, etc). Why is that the standard?! We're not talking about sending people to jail!
I think it's because the likelihood of false positives is so massive, and every false positive has pretty big consequences for students. I've had them talk to me about how they "try to write shorter sentences" because they're so scared of false accusations.
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"From semester 2, students can use AI in all 'non-secure' – or unsupervised – assessments, and coordinators cannot ban its use."
This is assessing ability to understand and make a argument rather than recall