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The Cures for AI Are Killing Us
The retreat from take-home essays jeopardizes the future of the humanities.
Why We Haven’t Measured College-Level Learning
Past efforts have failed because of tension over whether they’re for us (colleges) or them (our overseers). Let’s try again so colleges can prove they’re giving students what we promise them.
University of Pennsylvania Now Enforcing Math Prerequisites
As college students’ math skills decline worldwide, Penn is verifying students’ readiness for advanced calculus and algebra courses.
MIT AI Report Calls for Alternative Grading, More Social Learning
Artificial intelligence is upending the MIT education, a committee has found. Students, instructors and administrators will need to revisit nearly every part of that experience to respond to it.
AI Tends to Mark Students’ Essays Higher Than Humans, Study Shows
LLMs cannot be relied on to give accurate indication of student performance, researchers find, as universities explore ways to relieve pressure on graders.
To Grade or Not to Grade … Is the Wrong Question
At Michigan, we hope covering students’ first-semester grades will lessen their stress and encourage them to challenge themselves intellectually.
U of Michigan Attempts to Disrupt the Transactional System
Making space for student self-regulation is good, actually.