Comment by vunderba

Comment by vunderba 2 months ago

2 replies

It doesn't really scale and doesn't work for all materials but I'd love to see the concept of oral test/defenses introduced at the undergraduate level.

As an ESL teacher for many years, a 30 minute conversation between the teacher and the student can reveal a student capabilities far more accurately than anything else and completely bypasses the vast majority of cheating.

a_wild_dandan 2 months ago

Just use supervised testing. It's scalable, battle tested, and pervasive. Even ignoring scalability, orals have problems. KISS!

nbardy 2 months ago

We need to start scaling this. Pay the money fund teachers to sit with students