Posted on 05/26/2025 4:25:20 AM PDT by karpov
That statement is similar to something that Roberts wrote in an opinion
AI will take care of that issue.
Essays are what higher education is all about. Why does it take so long to get degrees at universities? Testing is largely done by essay, not multiple choice. It’s not about having the right answer, but how the answer is given. It’s not surprising that universities will use essays to favor certain students while disfavoring others. It’s what they do, and how they do it.
The paper requirement is much like the requirement for HR to post job openings. It is a meaningless action to check a box. Neither the paper nor the postings have any influence on who gets selected. The decision was made on unrelated criteria.
Not in a blue book with an exam proctored to excluded access to any device.
LOL! I had an old-school Classics professor do exactly that not all that long ago. It was pure cruelty but funny as hell. Pen and paper, no keyboards, no voice to text, nothing. I was one of three older adults in the class and the Prof took us off the grading curve because it wasn't even fair. I mentioned it to him and he replied, "Yeah, but I have to grade them all."
For decades I have been giving rather than taking exams, but in graduate school I had to pass language exams in four languages. The French and German were relatively easy—ETS multiple guess exams. But for Latin and Greek you had to translate four passages without a dictionary. But at least they were taken from texts you had read at some point in the past, and you didn’t have to take both exams on the same day.
She was partially blind.
Too funny.
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