AI and Assessment Seminars - week 12
This new seminar series invites colleagues to share practices around AI and assessment that are transferable, practical, and authentic. The new Sydney Assessment Framework recategorises each assessment according to their role as assessment of, for or as learning and how they are delivered and adjustments are applied. It aligns with the ‘two-lane approach’ to assessment in the age of generative AI through the appropriate use of ‘secure’ assessments where the use of AI can be controlled (Lane 1), and the development disciplinary knowledge, skills, and dispositions alongside AI through ‘open’ assessments (Lane 2).
Reflection on learning is a key skill that many disciplines hope their students will master to develop long-term and work-integrated skills for effective and efficient lifelong learning practices. In the pre-AI era, reflections were primarily assessed through reflective writing tasks, which assumed that better-written reflections led to more effective learning processes. However, now that reflective writing can be outsourced and completed by a chatbot with little prompting, students are at risk of being unable to articulate their learning processes and decision-making practices in the context of their unit of study. If not addressed, this may mean that students become unable to make informed decisions or engage in learning processes when exposed to new content/observations. Dr Timothy Davies from the Discipline of Exercise and Sport Science in the Sydney School of Health Sciences, in collaboration with Education Innovation, has developed an agent in Cogniti for students to complete a guided reflection, whereby the agent reacts to the wording provided to it by the student, with built-in standards of quality to promote deep reflection from students. This presentation will also include how the agent can be used in supplemental learning activities, in both in-class and self-directed settings.
With Dr Tim Davies, Faculty of Medicine and Health
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Monday 27 October 2025
1.00pm - 2.00pm Hybrid (Camperdown campus and Zoom)
Free