But my experience over 15 years of teaching at UK universities is that “marking student research/take home essays ” was already a highly problematic and inaccurate means of evaluation. Extremely time consuming to judge, especially with students who struggle with the English language. (And you are asked to not penalise them for this). Students can and do pay others to write it for them.
the availability of chat Gpt makes this substantially more difficult.
My advice (to the educational system) would be a combination of:
Try to work with a smaller number of intrinsically motivated students. Focus less on evaluation. This is particularly true for research intensive subjects.
If you need to do evaluation, arrange proctored/Invigilated exams
This is helpful at the margin
But my experience over 15 years of teaching at UK universities is that “marking student research/take home essays ” was already a highly problematic and inaccurate means of evaluation. Extremely time consuming to judge, especially with students who struggle with the English language. (And you are asked to not penalise them for this). Students can and do pay others to write it for them.
the availability of chat Gpt makes this substantially more difficult.
My advice (to the educational system) would be a combination of:
Try to work with a smaller number of intrinsically motivated students. Focus less on evaluation. This is particularly true for research intensive subjects.
If you need to do evaluation, arrange proctored/Invigilated exams