Tag: assessment validity
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Weekly digest 42
in Digestactive reading, assessment validity, Canadian Physiotherapy Association, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy, CSP, Data analysis, editors, Founders Lecture, information overload, luggage, manifesto, note-taking, OpenAI voice mode, promotion, promotion application, social work, validity, wikipedia, workshopA weekly collection of things I found interesting, thought-provoking, or inspiring. It’s almost always about higher education, mostly technology, and usually AI-related.
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Don’t track student attendance; design valid assessments
We shouldn’t care that students are sitting in the right seat, at the right time, on the right day. We should only care if they can do the job we say we’re training them for. And that requires validity in our assessments, not attendance in our classrooms.
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Helping students find the most creative, productive, and useful ways to include LLMs in their learning
I was in another meeting yesterday where the discussion turned to the ‘AI threat in assessment’. I can’t understand why we struggle to shift the focus of the conversation away from ‘threat’ and more towards ‘opportunity’. Every day I’m using Claude for more and more work that doesn’t involve generating content that I can pass…
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Generative AI in higher education: Paradigm shifts in assessment – Cape Peninsula University of Technology symposium
accountability, ai, artificial intelligence, assessment, assessment concerns, assessment design, assessment paradigm, assessment task, assessment validity, faculty development, higher education, large language model, learning inference, LLM, paradigm shift, pedagogy, standard assessment paradigm, universal anything machineIn this presentation at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology, I examines the impact of large language models (LLMs) on assessment practices in professional education. I critique the standard assessment paradigm and suggest that AI could reshape assessment methods. The presentation also briefly covers a faculty development framework and broader implications of AI in learning.
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Do language models threaten the economic viability of universities?
Recent developments in generative AI – not least the notorious ChatGPT – offer opportunities to stimulate long-overdue reforms to assessment practices. But these reforms need careful thought and principled implementation within an already hard-pressed sector. Carless, D. (2023). How ChatGPT can help disrupt assessment overload. Times Higher Education Campus Note that the article I link…