Authentic assessment in the age of AI: how to meaningfully incorporate AI into your assessments

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  Bookings close 13 May 2025 at 11am (UK time)

Workshop overview

‘Authentic assessment’ looks to ensure that assessment tasks meaningfully resemble those that learners will then go onto do in future professional roles.

These assessments are designed to give students the opportunity to show how they can apply their knowledge and skill in real-world contexts. However, the growing use of generative AI within the workplace poses the question: how do our assessments need to adapt, if they are to remain authentic in an AI world?

In this interactive workshop, we will explore how generative AI tools can be incorporated within our assessments by exploring:

1. How generative AI tools can facilitate students in demonstrating their own understanding through authentic assessment
2. How generative AI tools can act as a creative tool that can help students solve challenging problems and produce complex artefacts.

Through Cambridge expertise, participants will be empowered to understand how generative AI might best be used within their own assessment context and meaningfully consider the pros and cons of doing so.

Who is this workshop for?

The workshop is aimed at anyone looking to incorporate the use of generative AI within their assessments, whilst maintaining their overall validity.  You could be a teacher or a lecturer with an interest in assessment design or you could be working at an awarding organisation and who want to better understand the different ways to approach this process.

If you are new to using generative AI models, or have limited experience, this workshop will give you everything you need to get going. Or, if you are more experienced and want to further develop your approaches in a supportive, yet critical environment, this workshop will help increase your understanding of the underpinning principles and ability to justify the decisions to key stakeholders, such as students, parents, and other educators.

Workshop outline

This workshop will explore the different ways AI can be incorporated into assessment whilst maintaining its authenticity. You will explore several different case studies and be given the opportunity to consider the applicability of these within your own context. Assessment validity, and the need to ensure that we are measuring what we intended to measure, will be a key underlying theme throughout.

By the end of the workshop, you will have a greater understanding of the use of AI within assessment and have had an opportunity to apply these through practical exercises to support your understanding. You will also take away resources to support you in applying the learning to your own context.

Key learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop, you will have:

• Identified opportunities for your learners to authentically use AI in a manner that reflects their possible future professions
• Considered how AI can be incorporated into assessment tasks and consider the implications it may have on their authenticity
• Understand how the use of AI may impact (both positively and negatively) the validity of your assessments
• Develop strategies to ensure the appropriate, effective use of AI within your context.