A new focus for assessment design: Integrity, not just detection: Insights from Turnitin’s executive roundtables: Part 2 of 3
As generative AI becomes more sophisticated and less controllable, academic leaders are shifting from reactive policies that detect AI misuse to proactively designing assessments that prevent it. It is assessment reimagined, where learning and ethics are assessed, not just outputs.
New assessment design strategies highlight the learning process, not just the product of learning, which can be easily generated using AI. This protects authentic academic outcomes, scaffolds students’ AI literacy and ethics, and delivers stronger prospects for learners and graduates in the AI-ready era.
These research- and practice-backed insights come from Turnitin’s executive customer roundtables, which provide a rare forum for senior education leaders to discuss innovation in institutional strategy.
During this year's executive customer roundtables, Turnitin's leadership facilitated discussions about how process-focused assessment could protect academic integrity, and how technology is supporting this evolution. This article in the second in a series of three that explores, specifically, global frameworks to protect learning and assessment.
Interested in reading more? Check out the full blog here: https://www.turnitin.com/blog/a-new-focus-for-assessment-design-integrity-not-just-detection