#gradingofstudents — Public Fediverse posts

@Kingevo I teach at a university, and may share our observations on school, and university, grading.

For almost 8 years I taught maths at a technical university in Singapore - the place considered by some the pinnacle of school maths. The latter is very far from being correct - Singapore edicates its best school leavers abroad, with massive scholarship programs for these who can't afford full fees in a top US or UK university. Leftovers (and a lot of other SE Asia school leavers) enter local universities. And, gosh, they really, really need a grade detox, for they have been graded to total brain damage and death by the supposedly superior system, with all the natural curiosity and ability to question beaten out...

In Oxford, where I ended up afterwards, grading is very mild - you can, potentially, almost sleep through terms, and do exams, few questions asked. That is, very little continuous assessment (CA). Why? Because CA leads to homework copying, and other sorts of cheating. That is to say, homework is not graded - it's marked and given to the students as feedback, as they get through courses.
Marking is taken very seriously, and is extremely time-consuming etc.

OK, I stop here, please feel free to ask more.
#GradingofStudents #grading

It was suggested that I tag this so here goes. #MTBoS #GradingofStudents #grading

The use of #AI was permitted in my course, as long as its use was attributed.

This allows some data exploration such as this, showing student grade vs AI use. The latter is from a commercial product, which might or might not be reliable. Grades are jittered slightly.

What do you see?

The higher grades either didn't use AI or it's use wasn't detected

Or

There's a cohort of students using AI to clean up their grammar

Or

Lots of use of AI cited but not detected

#academia #HigherEd #education #science #genAI #ChatGPT #teaching #TurnItIn #AI
#grading #gradingofstudents #academicchatter

Alarmed by A.I. Chatbots, Universities Start Revamping How They Teach - With the rise of the popular new chatbot ChatGPT, colleges are restructuring some courses... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/16/technology/chatgpt-artificial-intelligence-universities.html #northernmichiganuniversity #georgewashingtonuniversity #collegesanduniversities #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #gradingofstudents #plagiarism #innovation #openailabs

British Grading Debacle Shows Pitfalls of Automating Government - The uproar over an algorithm that lowered the grades of 40 percent of students is a sign of battle... - https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/20/world/europe/uk-england-grading-algorithm.html #coronavirus(2019-ncov) #artificialintelligence #politicsandgovernment #admissionsstandards #gradingofstudents #johnsonboris #england