Rethinking Assessment With AI: Student Agency Beyond the Grade
Location
Logan, UT
Start Date
8-13-2025 3:15 PM
End Date
8-13-2025 4:00 PM
Description
This panel showcases classroom innovations that use generative AI to support student agency, critical thinking, and reflective learning. Through process-oriented assignments and student-driven inquiry, the presentations highlight how AI can facilitate authentic assessment practices that align with the conference theme of fostering creativity, inclusion, and growth beyond traditional grading. Xiao’s presentation explores how students in a writing class used (or chose not to use) the AI tool Elicit in their literature review assignments and what their survey responses reveal about writing strategies and perceived learning. In Russ’s presentation, we’ll go over the challenges and roadblocks of an assignment called “Build Your Own ChatGPT,” wherein students train a Large Language Model (LLM) with their own chosen texts and have a larger conversation about the problematic ways our society talks about AI. Chris’ presentation examines how students in an upper-division course on the history of sexuality critically engaged with ChatGPT’s answers about the content covered in the class.
Rethinking Assessment With AI: Student Agency Beyond the Grade
Logan, UT
This panel showcases classroom innovations that use generative AI to support student agency, critical thinking, and reflective learning. Through process-oriented assignments and student-driven inquiry, the presentations highlight how AI can facilitate authentic assessment practices that align with the conference theme of fostering creativity, inclusion, and growth beyond traditional grading. Xiao’s presentation explores how students in a writing class used (or chose not to use) the AI tool Elicit in their literature review assignments and what their survey responses reveal about writing strategies and perceived learning. In Russ’s presentation, we’ll go over the challenges and roadblocks of an assignment called “Build Your Own ChatGPT,” wherein students train a Large Language Model (LLM) with their own chosen texts and have a larger conversation about the problematic ways our society talks about AI. Chris’ presentation examines how students in an upper-division course on the history of sexuality critically engaged with ChatGPT’s answers about the content covered in the class.