V_Shtrum t1_j3w8qqb wrote on January 11, 2023 at 2:31 PM

Reply to comment by Deformero in Australian universities to return to ‘pen and paper’ exams after students caught using AI to write essays | Australian universities by geeceeza

Hmm, not sure the education system is obsolete, perhaps it's more the 'assignment/essay' method assessment?

In the Italian university system almost all assessment is oral: you sit down at the end of your module and get grilled by your professors. Perhaps the Anglosphere universities will move to that system.

2 downsides of oral exams: examiner bias (your professor could be an '-ist') and it's labour intensive. Perhaps an AI oral examiner could be the way forward?

LoquaciousAntipodean t1_j3y8tgc wrote on January 11, 2023 at 9:58 PM

Hear hear, that's exactly what I have been saying! I like the sound of that Italian exam system; an oral, interview style examination from expert peers sounds like an extremely honest and deep way to assess someone's skills.👌

Very much agreed that using 'AI experts' to do it could be very useful in removing/accounting for human instinctive maladaptive biases (against gender, race, appearance etc) 👍