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Quote from Robert Gibson in a listserv: "If you do a quick google search for how to cheat online proctoring you will find a ton of sophisticated ways to cheat any proctoring system. These methods aren't hard to execute. No matter what draconic rules proctoring softwares require, students determined to cheat WILL find a way around them. In my view, online proctoring does not prevent cheating. It only increases test anxiety in honest students. The best way to curb cheating on exams is to 1) design better assessments (not exams), 2) create open-ended questions that are hard to cheat (because they are complex), or 3) create exams that are so difficult that collaboration is required." Additionally, Robert mentioned that, in a recent webinar, Paul Leblanc said (roughly, not verbatim) that cheating occurs because we don't measure learning, we measure grading.

7 Ways to Assess Students Online and Minimize Cheating

I don't think people with existing skills will ever adopt generative AI as part of their daily practice. Instead, I think we're going to see lines drawn in the sand. After all, the folks who have those skills worked to establish them, often spending years honing such skills and going into debt to establish mastery in their fields. I fully expect to see many people bias generative AI as a form of cheating. Early testing shows that those with underdeveloped or emerging skills rather than those who have mastered skills are the most likely to benefit from adopting generative AI in their jobs. This suggests that such adoption could benefit those unprepared, unmotivated, and struggling students the most. It also suggests that their higher-performing peers will see the least amount of help from adopting generative AI. What's lost in this is we want as many students as possible to develop mastery in skills for their studies and their future careers, not use generative AI as a crutch to help them pass. ... I said this last year and think it rings truer today-the mark of future mobility will not be having access to a college education. Rather, it will be if you could afford to go to an institution where a human being taught you or if you had to attend one where you learned from an algorithm.

via Elena

Ugh.