Quality Assessment
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Reading Time: 4 minutesGenerative AI (genAI) has brought new challenges, opportunities, and questions in terms of the assessment of student work. Large Language Models (LLMs), the technology that powers ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, respond to prompts to produce human-like [...]
Reading Time: 2 minutesGrade inflation is a well-known phenomenon. Check out some thoughts and data from Harvard in Grade Inflation: What Goes Up Must Come Down. We must ensure that students receive grades that discriminate, in the best sense of the word, the degree to which they have attained the course outcomes. In a general sense, the course learning outcomes measure the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that the student has attained by a certain point [...]
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is important to provide students with clear directions on how to cite any permitted use of generative AI (genAI) in assessments. These directions can be part of the statements you provide to students on The [...]
Reading Time: 2 minutesConestoga licenses several assessment proctoring apps or software for use in in-person, sync online or asynchronous courses. In assessments using online quizzes built within eConestoga, one or more of these options may be used to support [...]