Brown University economics final scores plummeted after professor shifted format in-person to stop LLM cheating
Eighteen students dropped the class following the exam policy change
A Brown professor gave his students a take-home midterm exam. After suspecting many cheated using AI, he made the final in-person. The orange dots are the midterm scores and the gray dots are the final scores. Looks like all but 3 cheated on the midterm.
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Kosta Derpanis (sabbatical in Zurich)@CSProfKGDML/vision profs: how have you structured your assessments now that LLM use is pervasive? What’s working, what isn’t, and what surprised you? Asking for a friend 😉 https://twitter.com/aakashgupta/status/2075092082965074378
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SB scott belsky@scottbelskyalso a sign of how stale traditional education is. I wonder how these assessments that prohibit the use of modern methods of remembering and querying things are actually correlated with the intelligence or initiative that makes someone successful?…
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TN Timothy Nguyen@IAmTimNguyenBack when I was an undergrad at Caltech, all assignments and exams (including the final) were take-home, timed, and self-administered. The Caltech honor code was real and lived. Looking at the impact of its alumni, that trust clearly paid off. I'm not sure if that model is still…
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DT Derek Thompson@DKThompI think here’s an interesting tension between many academics’ insistence that “AI can’t think” and the discovery that AI has demolished traditional methods for evaluating learning and thinking. https://twitter.com/paulg/status/2075031014628311236
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SK Sriram Krishnan@sriramk@DKThomp I think this is a pretty big issue in certain academic and intellectual circles especially. hard to concretely grapple with AI if you don’t want to admit AI is good!
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SS Steven Sinofsky@stevesi@paulg @xorxorg I wonder if the instructions were explicit about what resources you could use or not use? It is interesting he specifically said no time limit but no mention of other instructions/honor system. It seems like some students opted to use more non-AI resources and…
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