Generative AI & Assessment (short post)

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Delivering sessions on HE Assessment and Feedback recently the hot topic of discussion - Generative AI.

18 months since ChatGPT hit the mainstream and the talk is still of how we can possibly detect when students have used generative AI to create an assessment submission.

I don’t have the answer to that – does anyone?

However some take away points:

·       Assessment needs to continue to evolve – with a continued emphasis on authentic assessment that requires higher level thinking

·       Increased utilisation of in person assessments/assessment components can mitigate the essay production capability of generative AI (but open up other resource challenges)

·       It is important to decide WHAT part generative AI CAN play in assessment.

·       Perhaps we need to reframe Generative AI and consider the possibilities not simply the challenges

·       If we decide to utilise it within an assessment ensure it is adding value and not to satisfy its title as the new thing.



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