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This has always seemed overblown to me. If students want to cheat on their coursework, who cares? As long as exams are given in a controlled environment, it's going to be painfully obvious who actually studied the material and who had ChatGPT do it for them. Re-taking a course is not going to be fun or cheap.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying this, but it feels like proctored testing solves the entire problem.
Problem is, by the time they've failed the test, the opportunity for them to learn the content is largely passed.
The purpose of school is to educate and teach thinking skills. Tests are just a way to assess how effectively you and your students are achieving that goal. If something (in this case easy access to AI tools in the classroom) is disrupting that teaching/learning process, sure it's useful to detect that through testing, but I'd doesn't do anything really to solve the problem. Some fraction of kids are disciplined enough to recognize that skating by on classwork will lead to poor test results and possibly retaking classes, but generally those aren't the kids you need to worry about anyway.
Who would you rather have as a surgeon? The one who did all their coursework by hand and graduated with Bs or the straight-A superstar who got a full ride to John Hopkins by using ChatGPT and just hiding their tracks better than the rest of the class? I'm not saying those are the only two options, but there's definitely a reason we shouldn't be so cavalier with cheating
If everyone does poorly, they will still have to pass some or all.
Why? If everyone does poorly, everyone should fail, provided the opportunity to learn was there.
To is system and they need to move bodies.
For example, SATs scores started to crater so schools just stop asking for them to expand the pool lol
In France you cannot fail a middle or high school class anymore. The official explanation is that it hurts the kids' feelings. The teachers' explanation is that too many people would fail.