Assessment Design with AI

Conversational AI tools like ChatGPT have taken the world by storm, and education is one of the biggest areas for potential impact.

In this course, teachers will learn how to adjust to the existence of these new technologies. To start, this course will teach some crucial strategies for adjusting existing assessments to expected student use of new AI tools so that you can remain assured your students are achieving your learning goals.

Defensive adjustment of our assessments is just the starting point, though; from there, this course will move on to exciting ways you can leverage AI in your class, from teaching students how to use it as a “calculator” for writing to using it yourself to author engaging new assignments tailored to your specific context.

At the end, you will come away with the confidence that not only are your students learning what you want them to learn, but that they are going beyond what they could have done in the past using new technologies.

Week 1: Fundamentals of Conversational AI Learn the fundamental components of conversational AI tools like ChatGPT, including how they work, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to prompt them for the best results.

Week 2: AI-Resistant Assessment Learn strategies for revising your existing assignments to minimize the impact of AI and prevent students from overrelying on intelligent assistants rather than their own understanding.

Week 3: AI-Conducive Assessment Learn strategies for expecting and accepting students to use AI assistance on your assignments and adjusting accordingly, including desirable approaches to using AI and modifications to assignments to increase expectations based on AI assistance.

Week 4: AI-Expansive Assessment Learn strategies for leveraging the existence and pervasiveness of conversational AI to offer students assignments that would have been infeasible or impossible without these new technologies, like new assessments custom tailored to your context.