Assessment design decisions for an age of Artificial Intelligence
Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson, Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE), Deakin University
Artificial Intelligence can now do so much of what we traditionally have assessed. This causes us to question how we assess, as many tasks are now invalid as assessment of learning, and questionable as assessment for learning. It also causes us to question what we currently assess, as some learning outcomes have become irrelevant and/or infeasible to assess. Finally, it causes us to question if there are new learning outcomes we might want to assess if we are to prepare students for a world where artificial intelligence is commonplace.
This conference workshop builds on the work of the Assessment in Higher Education community in advocating for assessment improvement and adapts it to suit an age of artificial intelligence. The workshop has a particular focus on assessment design, and in particular ensuring assessment meets its purposes of certifying achievement, promoting learning, and developing students’ understanding of quality.
Biography
Professor Phillip (Phill) Dawson is the Co-Director of the Centre for Research in Assessment and Digital Learning (CRADLE) at Deakin University. He has conducted extensive research into how to assure the validity of assessment in the face of new technologies. His two latest books in this area are Defending Assessment Security in a Digital World: Preventing E-Cheating and Supporting Academic Integrity in Higher Education (Routledge, 2021) and the co-edited volume Re-imagining University Assessment in a Digital World (Springer, 2020). In his spare time Phill performs improv comedy and produces the academia-themed comedy show The Peer Revue.
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