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by JohnMakin
153 days ago
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> It has become difficult to grade students using anything other than in-person pen and paper assessments, This shouldn't be a big deal. This was the norm for decades. My CS undergrad I only finished ~10 years ago, and every test was proctored and pen and paper. Very, very rarely would there be a remote submission. It did not seem possible to easily cheat in that environment unless the test allowed notes you yourself did not write, or if you procured a copy of the test beforehand and were able to study off that previously, but the material was sufficiently rigorous that you sort of had to know it well to pass the class, which seems to me the whole aim of a college course. |
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We need to hire more professors, then, as the ratio of FTE profs to FTE students is significantly lower, even over just a decade.
Edit: But I agree. I've mentioned to my professor wife that there needs to be movement back to oral exams. Orals exams are graded, nothing else is. IT works for law school. One of the only things that works for law school. One exam at the end of the semester. Nothing else matters, because the only thing a class needs to measure is mastery of the material, not whether you are diligent at completing basic work with the help of textbooks and friends and the Internet.