5. Incorporate more authentic, context-specific, or personal assignments

Designing assessments that mirror real-world tasks or are highly context-specific to your subject/discipline is another strategy for making assessments more relevant for students and increasing their motivation and engagement with the task. Authentic or context-specific tasks, although not invulnerable to cheating, may also make it more difficult for students to complete using AI.

Examples

• Analysis of case studies or scenarios requiring students to refer specifically to materials presented or discussed in classes
• Analysis of a less-known object or feature in the local area
• Discussion or reflection requiring students to draw on their personal life experiences or experience of their family or peers

Case Studies

For more practical examples of this strategy, see also the following case studies:

Encouraging student engagement and deeper approaches to learning through assessment

Redesigning a final exam to reduce surface learning and academic misconduct

Fostering genuine student engagement with personalised, context-specific assessment tasks

Designing continuous assessment to support experiential and project based learning

Authentic assessment design in a highly scaffolded environment

Assessing process and product in a constructively aligned subject