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A blue book exam is a type of
A blue book exam is a type of test
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administered at many post-secondary schools in the United States
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. Blue book exams typically include one or more essay
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s or short-answer questions. Sometimes the instructor will provide student
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s with a list of possible essay topics prior to the test itself and will then choose one or let the student choose from two or more topics that appear on the test.
History
Butler University
Butler University is a private university in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1855 and named after founder Ovid Butler, the university has over 60 major academic fields of study within six colleges in the arts, business, communic ...
in Indianapolis
Indianapolis ( ), colloquially known as Indy, is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of municipalities in Indiana, most populous city of the U.S. state of Indiana and the county seat of Marion County, Indiana, Marion ...
was the first to introduce exam blue books, which first appeared in the late 1920s. They were given a blue color because Butler's school colors are blue and white; therefore they were named "blue books".
Starting in 2024, blue book exams experienced a significant resurgence in popularity within higher education as a direct response to the widespread use of artificial intelligence tools, such as ChatGPT
ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022. It uses large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-4o as well as other Multimodal learning, multimodal models to create human-like re ...
, for academic cheating.
See also
*Examination book
An examination book, or exam book, or blue book is a notebook used by students of many post-secondary schools in the United States to write essays and answer multiple short-answer questions when their assessment tests are administered. The bo ...
References
{{reflist School examinations Butler University 1920s establishments in Indiana