We now have a “two-lane approach” to assessments. Lane 1 assessments are secure and measure students’ capabilities in live, in-person environments, such as interactive oral assessments, Q&As or demonstrations, skills observations or, yes, sometimes exams. When these assessments are well-designed and executed, with AI use reliably controlled, they safeguard academic integrity and measure whether learning has happened. We’ll also have “open” lane 2 assessments that allow the use of all available and relevant tools, including generative AI. In these assessments, we have essentially banned the banning of AI because (apart from the fact that restricting AI is unenforceable when students are not in front of us) we want to ensure our students can learn, prosper and contribute in the contemporary business and wider world. We’ll assume students are using AI, and they won’t get in trouble for doing so in open lane 2 assessments, as long as they acknowledge how they’ve used it.
