Thursday, September 10, 2026

Designing Assessment in the AI Age

Greetings from the Teaching and Learning Showcase 2026 on the "Super-floor" at the Australian National University, where educators are work shopping how to change assessment in the light of the use of AI. The first point there was general agreement that the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) preferred approach of more exams was not a good idea. One thought was that assessment should not be a form of sadomasochism. 

My preference is "show your work", where students learn good professional practice, having to show every detail of how & when they developed their final solution. Rather than the assessor trying to work out if the student did the work themselves, require the student to provide evidence of what they did.