@VCP When I teach composition, I do a bunch of conferences with the students which reinforces the scaffolding, but it's incredibly time-consuming. And I can only do that because I have 25 comp students a semester. My husband is doing it with 50 comp students this semester, but anything more than that is totally infeasible.
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@YusufToropov Certainly an option. I am not a big fan of proctored exams, and that raises some accessibility considerations, but everything is on the table.
@VCP I will say that most of my students did awesome performance videos and then discussed them cogently in class, and AI can't do that!
@VCP Yes, we are going to need to fundamentally rethink our assessment tools and potentially even what we value in student learning.
@VCP I also moved away from exams during the online COVID semester. Now, I do a portfolio of stacked/related assignments, all on the same speech: a paper using the OED, an essay comparing the speech to another passage that treats the same theme, a performance (video or live) of the speech, and a reflection on the whole portfolio. The scaffolding of these assignments makes them harder to plagiarize in traditional ways. I've been happy with this approach overall, though the theme essays were the weakest piece.
@YusufToropov I think there is some advantage to verbal exams but they are not always practical in larger classes.
@CristinaLAlfar Oh, I do use a more detailed prompt that asks them to quote from the text to support their points. It also asks them to focus on a single character. But the AI bot was able to come up with pretty good quotes when I prompted it. Oddly the citations were wrong but that seems like a pretty easy thing for it to catch up with. The AI's sentence-level writing is better than many of my students', though its engagement with the text is more surface-level.
I already use some more creative prompts for student writing, and I can see myself going further in that direction.
Friends, we may be in trouble. My conversation with OpenAI's ChatGPT about the theme of honor in 1 Henry IV (on which I just graded student posts). These aren't brilliant, but they are credible and I would probably not recognize them as not being the students' own work. #Shakespeare #AI #EdTech
