Assessment design in higher ed: Changing practices for a world with AI

Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with artificial intelligence (AI)

This year’s CRADLE International Symposium - ‘Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with AI’ - seeks to draw from theory and empirical research to unpack the broad range of contentions emerging about AI and assessment in higher education. As a pivotal highlight of the Symposium program we are pleased to invite you to an interactive public panel event.

Designing university assessment to account for the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) has proved to be difficult and contentious. Across the globe, many academics are making claims that assessment designs and systems need to be completely reconsidered. But the fundamentals of assessment in terms of its purposes may still hold true and many of the problems that are faced in implementing new regimes are challenges that already existed. So what, if anything, has changed? What are the tensions that continue to bedevil us? What conceptual or theoretical framings help us make sense of the things that change and the things that stay the same? 

Facilitated by CRADLE’s Professor Phillip Dawson, this panel discussion will feature a national and international cast of eminent higher education assessment researchers. The panel will reflect on the discussions held throughout the symposium and offer potential directions for future research in the intersections between university assessment and AI.

The second seminar in CRADLE's New Directions in AI Research and Practice series.

New Directions in AI Research and Practice

As generative artificial intelligence continues to transform higher education, the research landscape has begun to transition from speculative perspectives toward deeper empirical and theoretical insights. This webinar series brings together leading researchers to discuss what is being learned about AI's impact on teaching, learning, and assessment, and to chart pathways forward in both research and practice.

The panels in this series will speak to three critical facets of higher education in a time of AI: how students are working with AI, changing assessment design practices, and assessment security.

We hope that you can join us for this series of rich and timely discussions.

Series webinars:

• Student perspectives on AI in higher education - 1.00 pm - 2.00 pm, 29 August 2025
• Assessment design in higher education: Changing practices for a world with AI - 2.30 pm - 4.00 pm, 17 September 2025
• Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI - TBC

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