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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT (www.businessinsider.com)
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College professors are going back to paper exams and handwritten essays to fight students using ChatGPT::The growing number of students using the AI program ChatGPT as a shortcut in their coursework has led some college professors to reconsider their lesson plans for the upcoming fall semester.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So what you’re telling me is that written tests have, in fact, existed before?

What are you some kind of education historian?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

He's not pointing out that handwritten tests are not something new, but that using handwritten tests over typing them to reflect the student's actual abilities is not new.