Oh this is straight to the point!! You make good points of course.... Hard to argue that faculty aren't responsible for some of these dynamics. If I were assigning a "term paper" and two exams, then indeed I would err on the side of grade inflation, because how could I assign Ds and Fs if I have offered students no opportunities to demonstrate learning, application, trial + error...? If I'm being told that I also have to balance students' mental health concerns within my course design, then yes, I will make it easier for them. If I am also told that every 10 students = $1,000,000 of revenue, then I'm implicitly being informed that I need to help retain students...and an easy class is part of that. Sigh.
I have indeed noticed that I get regurgitation as well as AI-bot-written answers, no matter how convoluted my prompts are. It means I leave the classroom wondering what the point is.
Yeah, there is more than a little pressure from administration, but maybe 90% of students haven't earned an A or a B? Maybe a few extra C grades are in order, and more work is needed to earn them. There really aren't any easy answers here, as higher education does have a demographic and a cost problem, and there are probably more colleges than the country needs.
Oh this is straight to the point!! You make good points of course.... Hard to argue that faculty aren't responsible for some of these dynamics. If I were assigning a "term paper" and two exams, then indeed I would err on the side of grade inflation, because how could I assign Ds and Fs if I have offered students no opportunities to demonstrate learning, application, trial + error...? If I'm being told that I also have to balance students' mental health concerns within my course design, then yes, I will make it easier for them. If I am also told that every 10 students = $1,000,000 of revenue, then I'm implicitly being informed that I need to help retain students...and an easy class is part of that. Sigh.
I have indeed noticed that I get regurgitation as well as AI-bot-written answers, no matter how convoluted my prompts are. It means I leave the classroom wondering what the point is.
Yeah, there is more than a little pressure from administration, but maybe 90% of students haven't earned an A or a B? Maybe a few extra C grades are in order, and more work is needed to earn them. There really aren't any easy answers here, as higher education does have a demographic and a cost problem, and there are probably more colleges than the country needs.