Ensuring Validity in Assessment in the Age of AI

Introduction

The emergence of AI technologies like ChatGPT has brought significant changes to education, highlighting vulnerabilities in traditional assessment methods. These developments underscore the importance of revisiting and refining our assessments to maintain their validity and ensure that they continue to accurately measure student learning. Next to that, it emphasizes the need to understand what cognitive processes underlie skills evoked during assessing in order to make valid judgments yet. 

Context and target group

As part of their offer for the professional development of teachers, the Community for Learning & Innovation (CLI) is developing online learning modules for EUR teachers. These modules are developed in collaboration with EUR lecturers, didactics and experts on the topics. You can complete the online learning modules at your own pace at your own time. The modules were made possible in part by an EU grant through Npuls.

Content, form and time investment

This e-learning module is designed to guide you through the assessment cycle, providing insights, practical tools, and strategies to adapt your assessments in response to AI. Whether you choose to integrate AI into your assessments or aim to design assessments that minimize unintended AI use, this module will support you in making informed decisions and to design assessments that yield valid conclusions, ensuring that students are evaluated fairly. Throughout this module, you will engage in a thorough review and potential revision of one of your existing assessments or if you are going to create a new assessment. We will guide you step by step, offering relevant information, reflective questions, and practical activities.

This module is structured to take approximately 6-8 hours. The time you invest will equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to enhance the quality of your assessments. To fully benefit from this e-learning module, we recommend that you have prior knowledge of the assessment cycle, particularly in areas of assessment design and construction. This knowledge could have been acquired through the University Teaching Qualification (UTQ) or the Basic Examination Qualification (BEQ).

Enrolment

You can enrol for this course via Canvas.