What should replace memorization-based testing in the AI era?
Assessments that test what AI can't easily fake: judgment calls under ambiguity, synthesis across sources, the ability to evaluate whether an AI's output is actually correct, and applied reasoning in supervised, in-person settings — the same shift calculators forced on math education decades ago.
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