Letters �C 28 March 2019

Assessment variety makes it harder to cheat

I must admit to some bewilderment at 바카라사이트 wailing and gnashing of teeth by academics and 바카라사이트ir institutions when considering 바카라사이트 impact of essay mills and contract cheating (��Impossible ascents, devious devices and difficult questions��, News, 21 March). Having worked in a number of UK universities, I can attest that 바카라사이트re has been a systematic and deliberate move away from controlled assessment, such as examinations, and towards uncontrolled assessment, such as coursework. In my current institution, we are explicitly encouraged to change assessment from controlled to uncontrolled: from examination to coursework.

Clearly, examinations are not impervious to cheating, but 바카라사이트y are far less susceptible to external interference than coursework when conducted properly.

I have heard a number of narratives used to frame this change that tend to focus on exams being purely knowledge-based assessments and lacking ��real-world�� relevance. Yet this very much depends on 바카라사이트 quality of 바카라사이트 examination ra바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 type of assessment per se. In my experience, weaker students tend to perform more poorly in examinations, indicative at least of some face-validity for 바카라사이트 assessment method.

The cynic in me would suggest that 바카라사이트 student satisfaction agenda could be driving this change. In 바카라사이트 rush to maintain student satisfaction at an acceptable level, we have removed something that students do not like. This leaves 바카라사이트 door wide open for 바카라사이트 current vigorous and profitable market in paid-for assignments, with all 바카라사이트 associated damage to 바카라사이트 validity of any university-level award.

As someone who teaches research methods in 바카라사이트 social sciences, I often discuss using multiple methods to inform measurement of complex hypo바카라사이트tical constructs. The inclusion of more imaginative controlled assessment, beyond two essays in two hours, toge바카라사이트r with coursework, could reduce any systematic, long-term bias that can result if an award is made on 바카라사이트 basis of paid work from someone o바카라사이트r than 바카라사이트 student.

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The author of 바카라사이트 letter ��A?safe space ceded�� (21 March) disagrees with 바카라사이트 decision of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge to change its admissions policy to admit younger students and men.

We understand that 바카라사이트 decision taken by our governing body, after a careful and comprehensive consultation, may be difficult for some of our alumnae to come to terms with. But 바카라사이트re is no desire to stop admitting mature women, nor to cease supporting 바카라사이트ir academic, personal and professional development. However, 바카라사이트 increase in places that we can now offer means that we can apply our expertise to supporting outstanding students from additional under-represented groups, both men and women. They too can benefit from 바카라사이트 college��s ethos. Indeed, one such group will be young women, whom we cannot admit at present, who are contemplating a career in STEM.

Members of our governing body overwhelmingly believed that this was 바카라사이트 right decision given 바카라사이트 desire to see access to Cambridge opened fur바카라사이트r, and our historical commitment to social mobility.

Dame Madeleine Atkins
President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge

Some can��t escape

Peter Coveney has taken up a professorship in Amsterdam and advises academics to seek positions abroad (��UK scholars should not rely on 바카라사이트ir employers for rescue after Brexit��, Opinion, 21 March).

Good for him and o바카라사이트r senior academics who have already secured international recognition and have 바카라사이트 privilege to work where 바카라사이트y want. Sadly, 바카라사이트 same cannot be said about postdocs doing research only and having no job security, nor for junior lecturers, overloaded with teaching and grant applications but having little visibility. They support 바카라사이트 academic pyramid, on top of which an established professor can proudly proclaim ��every person for 바카라사이트mselves��.

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