…on grounds that their faculty may be outstanding, but the education ain’t great. I don’t know how much credence we ought to put in the Princeton Review ‘student satisfaction’ data, but he’s probably right that everyone should score Yale Law School a ‘3’ in the next US News surveys, but for a somewhat different reason: it would be better for the legal academy if Harvard or Stanford were #1 now and then in the US News roulette wheel. Among other things, it might lead those self-selecting for careers in legal academia to pick YLS less often. The disproportionate number of YLS grads entering law teaching is clearly having a deleterious effect on scholarship and the academy.
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Everything you say is true, but what is the alternative? I don’t think people are advocating a return to in-class…
The discussion here assumes an institutional context where returning to supervised in-person assessment is at least theoretically feasible, a reasonable…
Cyber security professional here -reliably determining when a computational artifact (file, etc.) was created is *hard*. This is sorta why…
Agreed with the other commentator. It is extremely unlikely that Pangram’s success is due to its cheating by reading metadata.
I see this question as a bit naïve. There is metadata on every document created by a modern word processor…
There’s a simple way to test. Open a pre-2022 essay and copy-and-paste it into a new file.
To be worth using, a detector needs not only (A) not get very many false positives, but also (B) get…