Oath or Law or Artificial Intelligence – AI ?

 

 

Context :

Maharashtra: Ahead of board exams, students to take pledge against copying

 

Extract :

In a first, the Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education has released a pledge to be taken by students against copying during tests during morning assemblies, ahead of Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams, due to start in February.

 

The Maharashtra State Board has declared that schools have to hold awareness campaign week (January 20 -26) for ‘copy-free’ exams.

 

It has released a week-long plan to run a campaign on awareness of ‘copy-free’ exams along with detailed guidelines to be followed before, after and during exams.

 

In the circular issued regarding this, Chairman of the Maharashtra State Board, Sharad Gosavi, said, “The week-long campaign is a result of a 100-day action plan released for the school education department by the Chief Minister. HSC and SSC exams are to start in February on 11 and 21, respectively.

 

From across nine divisions of the Maharashtra State Board, there are nearly 31 lakh students who are going to appear for these exams. Time and again, state boards have had to deal with various types of malpractices followed by students during exams. This awareness campaign will help control copy-cases.”

 

The campaign will start on Monday next week wherein each day is dedicated to different activities which are aimed at creating awareness among students on the importance of not copying during exams, its consequences and rules to follow. The Maharashtra State Board has also released a pledge to be taken by students along with the campaign plan

 

My Take :

 

As they say , “ Road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions “

With such good intentions , a few of our States have enacted “ Anti-Copying Laws “. Apparently, the legislators of these States do not have much faith on the effectiveness of “ pledges “ taken by the students.

But then look at the daily issue of observing RED traffic signal , telling pedestrians to wait till signal turns green – a matter of only a few minutes in one’s life. How many observe this rule ? You must have seen impatient parents dragging their small children across the crossing through the red light

Hence , when it is a question of “ losing / wasting “ an entire year of their precious lives , by failing to pass the exams , students are likely to resort to copy – ignoring the “ pledge “ or a law – following their parental training !

But what if we get AI ( Artificial Intelligence ) to make it IMPOSSIBLE TO COPY ?

In the exam halls , students resort to many different methods of copying but the most common method is to look up what the student , sitting on the adjoining table is writing for an answer to a question. Occasionally this involves passing answers written on small chits of papers .

This works when the Exam Paper contains the SAME questions – in the SAME order and carrying the SAME number of marks

But what if we can deliver to each examinee , a UNIQUE question paper , mentioned as follows on www.My-Teacher.in ?

“Over 294 Quintillion Unique Tests!

Yes, our system can generate more than 294 quintillion unique test papers from our extensive question bank, ensuring no two tests are ever the same.

 

Now, some of the stakeholders ( especially , the students themselves ) are bound to oppose this method by saying , >  this is not an “ apple for apple “ kind of testing. My neighbouring examinee got all very simple / easy questions but I got all , very difficult ones “

Whereas, AI ensures that , although UNIQUE , all question papers have the same “ degree of difficulty “

Here is a tabulation, prepared by ChatGPT , comparing my suggestion with MCSE ( Microsoft Certified Software Engineer ) online exam

With regards,

Hemen Parekh

www.My-Teacher.in  /  19 Jan 2024

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Stakeholder Concerns

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