Build your conceptual assessment and GenAI toolkit

Here are some suggestions for further reading to assist you in building a conceptual toolkit:

• Consider how you might become an AI-aware instructor who can help your students navigate these uncharted waters.
• If you ask students to self-report their use of GenAI in completing assessment tasks, consider using this downloadable template created by the Taylor Institute at the University of Calgary.
  • The template is part of a model whose starting point is to reflect on ways and degrees of integrating technology into teaching and learning. It can help with widening the lens in order to reflect on how and where students will integrate technology, including GenAI, in the assessments for your course, as well as asking them to reflect on and self-report usage.
• Increase your students’ literacy around competencies they should develop to use AI tools effectively and responsibly by introducing them to the University of Adelaide’s Artificial Intelligence Literacy Framework.
• Read the blog post: Assessment and AI (part of a community challenge at Western University) to learn more about how GenAI intersects with academic assessment and why fairness, feedback and transparency need to be rethought in light of AI’s capabilities and limitations. 
  • The post tackles key issues in assessment while encouraging critical engagement with the role of AI in shaping both student learning and instructor practice. 
• Read the blog post: “Talk is cheap: Why structural assessment changes are needed for a time of GenAI” to learn why focusing your attention on assessment design to maintain validity in an AI-enabled world makes more sense than only setting rules about GenAI use.