Items with Tag: Assessment
Find out what CRADLE PhD Pearl discovered at AHE 2026
8 July 2026
In this post we hear from CRADLE PhD student Pearl Kang about her experiences at the 2026 Assessment in Higher Education Conference in Manchester, UK. Pearl’s research focuses on reviewing ways to help students develop evaluative judgement via pedagogical approaches. Pearl reported on her research findings at the conference and she outlines the key highlights of the conference.
Find out how to create assessment that serves learning with David Boud
4 June 2026
CRADLE Co-Director Deakin Distinguished Professor David Boud recently featured in the podcast Campus Talks from Times Higher Education. Listen now to learn what constitutes good feedback, what the purpose of assessment is, and how GenAI is affecting everything assessment.
Validity and authenticity: How to treat cognition and AI
26 May 2026
In this post, CRADLE PhD student Sky Kusumastuti offers her reflections on our fourth seminar for 2026, ‘Entangled intelligence? Distributed cognition, AI agents, and assessment validity’. This seminar challenged the audience to consider some difficult questions around assessment and GenAI, while acknowledging that we may not know the answers yet.
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.
How do we make assessment tasks secure in a time of GenAI?
15 September 2025
The proliferation of generative AI (GenAI) continues to pose challenges for educators seeking to ensure their assessments remain valid and secure. Bringing together leading assessment and academic integrity scholars and practitioners, this webinar will discuss the urgent question of how to design secure assessment tasks in a time of GenAI. It’s the third session in our three-part series: New Directions in AI Research and Practice. Join our panel online on Thursday 23 October at 2pm.
