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My wife teaches at a university. The title is partly bullshit:
For most teachers it couldn't be more obvious who used ChatGPT in an assignment and who didn't.
The problem, in most instances, isn't the "figuring out" part, but the "reasonably proving" part.
And that's the most frustrating part: you know an assignment was AI-written, there are no tools to prove it and the university gives its staff virtually no guidance or assistance on the subject matter, so you're almost powerless.
Switch to oral exam and you'll know fairly quickly who is actually learning the material.
I agree with you for sure. However if I'm playing devil's advocate ... I think some people will fall under the pressure and perform poorly just because it's oral rather than written.
I generally think that even if that's the case that it's an important skill to teach too, but I'm just thinking of contradictions.
Oral would suck for the transition students. It's a completely different style and skill set of answering questions and no kid would have training or the mental framework on how to do it. It's great if you're the kind of person who can write a mostly perfect draft essay from start to finish no skipping around or back tracking, but if that's not you, it's gonna be a rough learning curve. This is before we ask questions like how does a deaf person take this exam? A mute person? Someone with verbal paraphasia?