A New Way Forward – Redesigning Assessment in the Age of AI

Why educators should stop blocking AI and start redesigning assessments around it. If AI can answer your question, the question needs to change.

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Alex Fuller and Myles Aravindhan

Rethink a new way forward. So we’re talking about redesign, not just defend here. Design with AI in mind, not against it. What’s that mean for us, Miles?
Well, this kind of goes back to that original slido — that confidence, and some people saying they don’t want to think about it. I know it’s a funny response, but in a way your assessment will echo that if you build it hoping that AI isn’t being used.

So what this one means is that whenever we write a question, whenever we write a task, we should assume that AI is available to the student. So if AI is available to the student, then we ought to avoid questions that AI can answer.

So what that means is let’s avoid superficial questions and let’s dig a little deeper. Because if we ask a question that AI can answer — the way I always saw it — if AI can answer it, then there’s no point asking that question to begin with.

So let’s move away from that idea of surface-level “what is” or “identify” questions. Instead, let’s ask questions that require a student to apply knowledge to their own specific context — their own life, their own workplace, their own experience — because that’s something AI can’t replicate for them.

And again, this kind of adds to that overarching idea of multiple processes at once — tasks that require a bit more depth, that pull the question away from AI by another step, and move it back to the student by another step.

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