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Alex's avatar

Uh, AI assessment sounds a bit dicey. I wonder if you wouldn't spend more time adjudicating disputes than you'd spend doing a crappier job grading by hand.

Kash's avatar
Jul 24Edited

Yeah it brushed over the AI assessment part, that seems like a difficult issue. This must be taking place on a screen, so if it’s take home then forget it, AI can do the whole thing. If it’s in class, you’re going to monitor for cheating? And that’s before the issue of whether the grading rubric actually works and is fair.

Susan Knopfelmacher's avatar

It is technically challenging and very time-consuming (lots and lots of trial and error and adjustment) to set up a reliable AI means of assessing extended pieces of student writing. I'd assume that's what is meant here, given the extended PBL emphasis, and reference to marking by rubric. (Daisy Christodoulou et al have been working for ages at setting up a reliable school-level marking system for extended writing).

General Tso's avatar

“At GMU, enrollment in the course was 100 students! I was paid $1200 to teach the course, minus the fee I had to pay for parking.”

He arrived expecting Galt’s Gulch. Instead, he got mediocre students and lackluster parking.

Paging Tyler Cowen. Please pick up a white courtesy telephone.

Doctor Hammer's avatar

Parking at GMU is an absolute mess. It made me nuts how many basic rules and assumptions for planning parking capacity they apparently didn’t even know existed. There are text books on the matter, but apparently the administration thought that zero available daily parking while charging hundreds of dollars for a pass was fine. God help you if there was an on campus event.