Having students write papers has always been a vaguely arbitrary, not-directly-related, and mostly inadequate assessment of topic mastery. Now that we have tools to eliminate drudge work -- calculators to do arithmetic, AI to write 2500-word essays -- the obvious solution is to embrace the technology. It's time to find methods of assessment that focus more on topic mastery and less on the vehicle of presentation. But institutional inertia is real, so I'm sure universities will just continue to kvetch about the tools 🙄
Having students write papers has always been a vaguely arbitrary, not-directly-related, and mostly inadequate assessment of topic mastery. Now that we have tools to eliminate drudge work -- calculators to do arithmetic, AI to write 2500-word essays -- the obvious solution is to embrace the technology. It's time to find methods of assessment that focus more on topic mastery and less on the vehicle of presentation. But institutional inertia is real, so I'm sure universities will just continue to kvetch about the tools 🙄