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Assessing students in the AI era
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Your World View about the impact of artificial intelligence on examinations (see R. Serrano Nature 656, 275; 2026) mentions a take-home midterm test that produced a class average score of 96%, compared with 48.6% in a closed-book final exam. This shocked us less as a statistic than as a symptom of a broader problem. The gap in scores is not a monitoring failure; it is a pedagogical signal that university assessments still rely on tasks that AI can now perform more quickly and efficiently than the average student.
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