Assessment Reform for the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Teaching in Higher Ed

Jason Lodge discusses assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence on episode 528 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Where does the capability of AI end and where does the impact of the teacher start?
-Jason Lodge

Our tendencies as teachers and the way that we wanted to teach was clashing with the way that the lesson plan had been structured by Chat GPT.
-Jason Lodge

We don’t know where we’re headed, but at least we can have a sense of what the direction might be.
-Jason Lodge

We have to get to the point where we stop looking for evidence that students are using these tools to cheat and shift our emphasis to looking for evidence that learning has occurred.
-Jason Lodge

It’s less about the technology and more about the human, how we learn and how we understand ourselves.
-Jason Lodge

Small things can add up to make a huge difference.
-Jason Lodge

Resources

• Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA)
• TEQSA Assessment reform for the age of artificial intelligence
• International College of Management, Sydney (ICMS) Academic Integrity in the Context of Artificial Intelligence
• Assistant, Parrot, or Colonizing Loudspeaker? ChatGPT Metaphors for Developing Critical AI Literacies, by Anuj Gupta, Yasser Atef, Anna Mills, & Maha Bali
• James Lang
• Small Teaching, by James Lang
• Jon Ippolito
• MYFest
• Episode 524: Toward a More Critical Framework for AI Use with Jon Ippolito
• Assessment 2020: Seven propositions for assessment reform in higher education, by Boud and Associates
• Higher Education Standards Framework (Threshold Standards)
• National Artificial Intelligence Taskforce (2023)