Items with category:Research Theme: Assessing for learning
How to respond to an evidentiary crisis: Voice-First Written Assessment
15 April 2026
CRADLE Seminar Series 2026 #5: In this seminar, the University of Oxford’s Kelly Webb-Davies will outline Voice-First Written Assessment - a two-stage assessment model designed in response to the evidentiary crisis that generative AI poses for educators assessing students’ ideation and reasoning. Join us at Deakin Downtown or online on Tuesday 26 May at the special time of 10.30am (AEST).
Entangled intelligence: Is AI changing the way students think?
2 April 2026
CRADLE Seminar Series 2026 #4: In this seminar, the University of Queensland’s Professor Jason Lodge will consider whether generative AI is fundamentally restructuring how students think, and ask what might this means for assessments and assessment validity. Join us at Deakin Downtown or online on Wednesday 13 May at 2pm (AEST).
Is it time to move beyond grades?
5 March 2026
In this seminar CRADLE’s Dr Juuso Nieminen will critically discuss why higher education systems continue to use grades despite plenty of evidence on how they don’t work, and whether we should now move on. Join us at Deakin Downtown or online on Wednesday 15 April at 2pm (AEDT).
Are we zombies? Validity is the word for assessment practitioners
10 November 2025
In this post we hear PhD student Lhea Reinhold’s thoughts on our latest webinar ‘Secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI’. Facilitated by Dr Thomas Corbin the webinar featured discussions around securing assessment with Professor Phillip Dawson, Professor Cath Ellis, Professor Danny Liu, and Kane Murdoch. Lhea is currently visiting CRADLE from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany.
Do we need to change assessment design for AI?
6 October 2025
In this post, CRADLE PhD candidate Mert Pekel reflects on the expert panel session CRADLE held as part of our International Symposium 2025. The session also doubled as webinar #2 in our New Directions in AI Research and Practice series and discussed changing university assessment practices for a world with AI. Mert reflects on the questions considered, and how the discussions have influenced his research with CRADLE.
Join us and InclusiveEdu to find out if inclusive assessment and security can coexist
14 August 2025
Can assessment for inclusion and security co-exist? A panel hosted by CRADLE, Inclusive Education, and the Redefining Assessment project will draw on the expertise of educators and the lived experience of students to consider how structural modifications of assessment to assure learning can also accommodate student diversity. Join us online or at Deakin Downtown on Tuesday 9 September 2025 at 2pm.
