To what end? Not cheating on the weekly assignments is surely more beneficial to learning than cheating on them is, but I don’t see how removing the assignments altogether would help students learn.
replyIf you nail the one exam, you get an A+. If you fail it, you get an F. In between, you get what your score says you get.
replyI understand the proposed grading system but not the reason for selecting that particular system.
replyIt's a crude blade to avoid the issues of AI pollution of weekly submissions, of which few teachers have much confidence that the submission itself was actually written by the student - who's assumed to be learning something.
replyThe OP was about students dumbing down their own work to avoid AI detectors ratting them out. That seems like a big loss.
And what would the goal of that be? I thought the goal of education was... education. The grading is not goal in itself. Will this really motivate kids to do better?
replyIt's to prove that a student is actually educated and has a firm grasp of the course material. If one gets an A every week on AI-assisted submissions, can one make such a claim? And can a teacher make the claim that they've achieved any actual education of the student?
replyA grade, on a single proctored test, is a crude metric, but at least it would be a brutally fair one.