Oral assessments are recommended as a strategy to maintain academic integrity against AI use¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Oral assessments are recognized as a strong strategy to maintain academic integrity, especially when questions are unknown ahead of time, removing students' ability to use AI to generate and memorize answers. → Fenton 2025

Evidence¶

Fenton 2025¶

Fenton, A. (2025). Reconsidering the Use of Oral Exams and Assessments: An Old Way to Move Into a New Future. Educational Researcher, 54(7), 430-436. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X251333638

q2 · i? · review · r2

The review asserts, citing Nikolic et al. (2023), that oral assessments with unknown questions preserve academic integrity by preventing AI-generated memorized answers. The article offers this as an attributed assertion; no empirical effect size is printed.

"Oral assessments are recognized as a strong strategy to maintain academic integrity, especially when questions are unknown ahead of time, removing the ability of students to use AI to generate answers and then memorize them (Nikolic et al., 2023)."

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