Redesigning Assessment in Response to GenAI: A Pilot Study on Considerations and Strategies of Faculty

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  In Virtual iPresentation Only: Division J - Section 4: Faculty, Curriculum, and Teaching Virtual Poster Session

Abstract

GenAI challenges the validity of many assessments in higher education in the US and globally. Empirical studies on how faculty members are coping with the challenges are necessary, even at this embryonic stage. This pilot study investigated faculty perceptions of the challenges posed by GenAI to their existing assessments and what redesigns have been made. Data were collected from six interviews and seven survey responses. Four categories of assessment strategies were discerned: keeping the status quo, reversion to tradition, circumnavigate-and-outrun, and embrace-and-adapt. These results offer a starting point for a fuller investigation of how faculty perceptions of GenAI and their discipline-based practices related to their assessment designs, in addition to commonly identified factors, including purpose, context, and practicality.

Authors

• Tracy X. P. Zou, Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Dai Hounsell, University of Edinburgh

• Henk Huijser, Queensland University of Technology