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AI in Education: College Assessment's Steroid Era
Cheating with AI has become the norm AI may not have dramatically changed most people’s lives yet, but it has disrupted college learning and assessment by turbo-charging cheating. One Brown economics class averaged 96 on a take-home midterm and 48 on an in-person final — the same students who submitted perfection floundered when tested on the same material without access to AI. The rate of cheating is a property of the assessment structure rather than an indictment of student
Matthew Brewer
Aug 91 min read


A History of Cheating in College: From Honor Codes to AI
By Adrian Gonzalez · Reviewed by Matthew Brewer, Ph.D., CEO of PracticeQuest A timeline of college cheating methods Cheating in college isn't something new. What changes is the methods students use to cheat, whether that is AI, answer sites like Chegg, or sharing test answers with other students through text chats. Over time, educational institutions have tried to address cheating through a variety of different systems. Each system was built to close the cheating problem in
Matthew Brewer
Aug 289 min read
Why AI-first learning platforms will get quietly worse
When a company's AI bill climbs faster than its revenue, it has three options: raise prices, cap usage, or switch to a cheaper AI model. The third option is the one to watch if you're being pitched an AI-based learning or assessment platform. Earlier this year Microsoft, facing internal AI coding costs that had grown faster than planned, canceled most Claude Code licenses in its Experiences and Devices division and moved engineers to its own lower-cost tool. After exhausting
Matthew Brewer
Aug 113 min read
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