Interactive Oral Assessments (IOAs) address assurance of learning challenges associated with generative AI and offer significant potential to embed Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles into assessment frameworks, enhancing student equity and inclusion. Over two years, we incorporated IOAs into three Business School units, assessing students’ ability to apply disciplinary knowledge to authentic business problems in a conversational format. IOAs promote UDL principles by optimizing relevance, authenticity, and salience of assessment goals; demonstrating knowledge across visual and auditory channels, activating and clarifying understanding, and promoting cross-language understanding; and varying response methods, optimizing access to tools and assistive technologies, and supporting planning and strategy development. IOAs are a scalable solution applicable to any discipline, assuring student learning while producing ‘expert learners’ who are purposeful, motivated, resourceful, knowledgeable, strategic, and goal-directed. This session illustrates how IOAs can be implemented to achieve these outcomes.
Teaching@Sydney