A growing number of U.S. college instructors are turning to oral exams to help combat an AI crisis in higher education.

Instead, students in Chris Schaffer’s biomedical engineering class at Cornell University are required to speak directly to an instructor in what he calls an “oral defense.” It’s a testing method as ...

The assignment involves no laptop, no chatbot and no technology of any kind. In fact, there’s no pen or paper, either.

Colleges are increasingly implementing oral exams to combat the challenges posed by generative AI in education, aiming to ...

Gaming the system is one thing, but getting away with it is another.