Universities revert to traditional exams as cheating rises

Some university departments in New Zealand are reverting to pen and paper for their end-of-year exams because of the difficulty securing digital exams from cheats, writes John Gerritsen for RNZ.

Professor Stephen Marshall, the director of Victoria University’s Centre for Academic Development, said the advent of online exams and ChatGPT had resulted in an increase in misconduct, although it was hard to gauge how much.

Marshall said the technical requirements for securing digital exams were so high, many departments did not bother with them. “Increasingly what we’re seeing is people requiring students to be on premise and doing that in print with pen and paper because the minute you bring any technology into the space, the threshold of support we need, the necessity to put in quite expensive tools and systems to wrap around it so that we’re controlling that environment, it’s problematic to deliver that.”
Full report on the New Zealand Herald site