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 do also set other types, e.g., data visualisation with commentary. (I’m in a social science field that mixes quant and verbal reasoning.) My approach is to tell students that I won’t always spot LLM generated stuff, but it’s often crap and they shouldn’t waste opportunity to develop skills
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
yeah maths is weirdly retro about some things, some of the subjects I took had handwritten chalkboard lectures (instead of powerpoint presenations) even when I did my masters in ~ 2015-16
as a student I hated exams but they're pretty much cheating-proof!
I should say that I've taught in subjects with low-stakes online multiple-choice quizzes set to ensure students are keeping up with the lectures, but I never liked them and have removed them when able to as a unit co-ordinator
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This is assessing ability to understand and make a argument rather than recall
as a student I hated exams but they're pretty much cheating-proof!