You are a student and enter a room or Zoom meeting. A panel of examiners who have read your essay or viewed your performance, are waiting inside. You answer a series of questions as they probe your ...

This past summer, I taught a six-week online undergraduate course on algorithms in computer science. The class is usually somewhat large -- for instance, last spring, more than 200 students enrolled.

News that several New Zealand universities have given up using detection software to expose student use of artificial ...

Others noted that oral exams, while more resistant to AI ... Economist Tyler Cowen said AI is exposing how much of schooling ...

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and ...

During the last week of the course, each student is expected to pass a 30 minute oral exam given by one of the faculty members. This exam is designed to assess the student's knowledge base and ability ...

Victoria L. Dolan ’28, a Crimson Editorial Editor, lives in Kirkland House. Artificial intelligence is changing education. If Harvard wants to keep its students honest, our exams need to change too.

When the two of us were students at Georgetown University more than 20 years ago, we noticed that our friends in American studies didn’t study the same way we did. They gathered in clusters of three ...

A topic sometimes discussed in the faculty lounge is the dreaded Ph.D. oral exam. As a faculty member who has chaired and otherwise participated in many of these events, I’m tempted to think that I’ve ...