Generative AI and assessment: designing questions, communication, and support

The rapid changes in availability and power of Generative AI have created opportunities and challenges for our assessment. This workshop will focus on a range of approaches for us to improve our assessment questions, communicate expectations, and support students in this challenging space.

This interactive session will contain:

• a brief overview of how to design assessment that can measure critical thinking abilities (with cognitive verbs and values of inquiry)
• an interactive evaluation of common types of questions to demonstrate how they could be enhanced to better assess thinking
• exploration of ways to help students use Generative AI effectively and ethically in their assessment
• the content of this workshop is not specific to Inspera, but a range of examples, question types and question variants shown will be in Inspera.

Supporting resources – research published by the UQ Critical Thinking Project

• Pedagogical Schema
• Critical Thinking Matrix
• Values of Inquiry.

Presenters

• Dr Luke Zaphir and colleagues from the Digital Assessment team in ITALI
• Dom McGrath, Teaching and Learning (T&L) Manager, ITaLI

Who should attend

• Course Coordinators
• Lecturers
• Tutors
• Teaching support staff

Benefits of attending

This session will:

• demonstrate evaluating whether assessment offers students an opportunity to demonstrate critical thinking abilities
• provide practical ideas for communicating and supporting students with effective and ethical ways to use Generative AI.