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Schools turn to handwritten exams as AI cheating surges

The rise of artificial intelligence in education is forcing schools and universities to rethink everything from homework policies to how final exams are administered. With tools like ChatGPT now widespread, students can generate essays, solve complex math problems or draft lab reports in seconds, raising urgent questions about what authentic learning looks like in 2025

To fight back, some schools are turning to an unlikely solution: pen and paper. The old-school "blue book," a lined booklet used for handwritten test answers, is staging a comeback, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. And while it might seem like a relic of a pre-digital era, educators say it's one of the most effective tools they have to ensure students are actually doing their own work.

CodeTemplarr:
Why not replace written paper submission with oral defence so the ideas are forced to pass through the brain of the the students and not just from Internet to paper.

Hypnotise:
How does one do oral defence with mathematics or engineering

Hypnotise:
How does one do oral defence with mathematics or engineering

Alusiizizi:
I did ElectEng in University in a system where all of our exams were either open notes, open book(where the student was allowed to bring any written text into the exam hall and use any information contained in aforementioned text to his aid in completing the exam) or the student was allowed one self written "cheat-sheet"(here, the student is allowed to write any and all information(equations, identities e.t.c) that he believes will help him in the examination). Now here's the paradox: If you found yourself having refer to any of the literature that you were allowed to bring into the exam hall then you were almost certainly going to fail the exam. In the system that I schooled in, actually understanding the course-work was far more valuable than rote-memorizing, and here's where oral examinations can be important. While any half-wit can copy down something that they got from the ChatGPT every single one of them, without exception, will fail when they are forced to face an oral defense panel.

Hypnotise:
In oral examination, some students might suddenly experience stage fright or loss of memorised material, starts to panic. Some subjects are well suited to oral rendition, like law, however some other subjects do need complex calculations to show workings, physics.

blamingthedevil:
Schools turn to handwritten exams as AI cheating surges

The rise of artificial intelligence in education is forcing schools and universities to rethink everything from homework policies to how final exams are administered. With tools like ChatGPT now widespread, students can generate essays, solve complex math problems or draft lab reports in seconds, raising urgent questions about what authentic learning looks like in 2025

To fight back, some schools are turning to an unlikely solution: pen and paper. The old-school "blue book," a lined booklet used for handwritten test answers, is staging a comeback, according to reporting from The Wall Street Journal. And while it might seem like a relic of a pre-digital era, educators say it's one of the most effective tools they have to ensure students are actually doing their own work.

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/schools-turn-handwritten-exams-ai-cheating-surges

Hypnotise:
In oral examination, some students might suddenly experience stage fright or loss of memorised material, starts to panic. Some subjects are well suited to oral rendition, like law, however some other subjects do need complex calculations to show workings, physics.

CodeTemplarr:
Why not replace written paper submission with oral defence so the ideas are forced to pass through the brain of the the students and not just from Internet to paper.

blamingthedevil:
https://www.foxnews.com/tech/schools-turn-handwritten-exams-ai-cheating-sur