Designing assessment tasks that are less vulnerable to AI
The growing accessibility and capability of generative AI platforms that can rapidly produce text, images, or other content in response to simple user prompts (e.g., ChatGPT, DALL-E, etc) pose a new and significant threat to assessment integrity. As such, many academics are wondering how they can redesign assessment to reduce academic misconduct. In response to these concerns, this page features guidance, practical strategies, case studies, and resources about good assessment practices that can enhance student learning while also reducing the risk of academic misconduct.
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Rethinking assessment in response to AI
The CSHE have produced a new guide on rethinking assessment in response to AI. This guide features seven practical strategies for improving assessment design and integrity, as well as examples and case studies to showcase these strategies
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Read more about the problem of AI and Assessment
Assessments play a critical role in student learning, but the widespread availability of text-generating AI tools poses a significant threat to their integrity. This raises a troubling question; how can we be sure that our graduates have learned what they need to be safe and competent professionals?
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Links to more detailed resources
A collection of additional resources, including blog posts, external websites, media articles, text resources, scholarly works and webinars on the topic of redesigning assessment in response to AI.
Seven practical strategies for improving assessment design and integrity
While there are various strategies to improve assessment design in your subject, we focus on seven key strategies below. While we provide examples of how to implement these strategies, how suitable a particular strategy is will depend on your teaching context, including the nature of your subject, year level of students and class size, among other considerations. We also acknowledge that redesigning assessments is not without its own challenges, especially in relation to workload and resourcing.
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1. Shift the emphasis from assessing product to assessing process
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2. Incorporate tasks that ask students to demonstrate evaluative judgement
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3. Design nested or staged assessments
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4. Diversify assessment formats
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5. Incorporate more authentic, context-specific, or personal assignments
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6. Incorporate more in-class and group assignments
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7. Incorporate oral interviews to test understanding or application of knowledge