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Jenny Killion

jenny@erinkentconsulting.com

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Five Principles for Rethinking Assessment with Gen AI

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These 5 Principles for rethinking assessment were important before GenAI, but now they’re even more relevant. In this article, I explore why validity, authenticity, transparency and trust are key to assessment.

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Seemingly every year, there is a new platform or website that prompts us to think about how we are assessing student learning and how we can ensure that students are demonstrating what they know with integrity. What follows are several strategies for promoting academic integrity, as well as some specific information on Artificial Intelligence tools (or AI tools, e.g., ChatGPT) that may help inform how you assess learning and create a learning environment that fosters trust and academic integrity.

Strategy #1: Design Opportunities for Authentic Assessment

Perhaps the most effective strategy for ensuring academic integrity involves authentic assessment-tasks that call for students to demonstrate the skills and knowledge they have learned in a real-world (or close to real, authentic) context. Authentic assessment requires students to transfer knowledge, often by engaging in higher order thinking skills (see Bloom's Taxonomy). The extent to which assignments call for the demonstration of learning in authentic, creative, and/or personalized ways minimizes students' ability to outsource academic work. This might involve having students identify themes in various course readings, class discussions, learning experiences (e.g., a lab, service-project), or their personal lived experience. Furthermore, designing maximally authentic assignments is an evidence-based practice that will help students engage more meaningfully with course content.

For more on assignment design with an awareness of AI bots (e.g., ChatGPT), please see the specific information included below.

Strategy #2: Structure Assignments to Lower Grade Anxiety

The following strategies can lower anxiety, which drives many students to consider cheating.

Build structured flexibility into due dates (e.g., by offering a set number of late submissions)

Allow more time for major assignments (whether as a general rule or by individual request)

Scaffold major assignments, establishing incremental check-ins or due dates to ensure students are making adequate progress

Redistribute the relative weight of major assessments, to reduce the stakes of any one assignment

Strategy #3: Communicate Why Academic Integrity Matters

Have clear expectations and take time to explicitly and repeatedly highlight relevant sections of your syllabus (e.g., descriptions of assignments, sources of academic support, flexible due dates, appropriate use of AI tools, relative weights of assignments, etc.), the University's commitment to academic integrity, and your own commitment to supporting students. For additional guidance and sample syllabus language, visit our Canvas site, " Create a Student-Centered Syllabus" under the "Academic Freedom" tab in " Course Management and Policies."

Make sure students are aware of Cornell's Code of Academic Integrity. You may also wish to include an academic integrity affirmation (e.g., test item, statement) that students complete on your syllabus or individual assignments.

Explicitly ask students to honor the Code of Academic Integrity. Here are some sample appeals you can modify for your needs:

Logical appeal

Emotional (moral) appeal

Personal appeal

You may also want to make students aware of the role that academic freedom plays alongside academic integrity in terms of building trust and respect in the classroom. Communicate that each person in class is expected to respect the principles of academic freedom for instructors and classmates and will maintain the privacy of the classroom environment, as outlined in

Let students know that you are but one of many resources on campus that are available to help with their specific challenges. This could even include creating a brief assignment to promote students' familiarity with the supports available to them. Knowing that you are aware and that you appreciate how challenging the undergraduate experience can be may encourage students to come to you before compromising their integrity.

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Promoting Academic Integrity in Your Course | Center for Teaching Innovation

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Seemingly every year, there is a new platform or website that prompts us to think about how we are assessing student learning and how we can ensure that students are demonstrating what they know with integrity. What follows are several strategies for promoting academic integrity, as well as some specific information on Artificial Intelligence tools (or AI tools, e.g., ChatGPT) that may help inform how you assess learning and create a learning environment that fosters trust and academic integrity.

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Check out Season 3!

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Natalie Wexler, education journalist and author of "The Knowledge Gap," hosts the inaugural series of our new podcast, Reading Comprehension Revisited.

In six short (~30-minute) episodes, Natalie tackles crucial questions such as, why do students from low-income backgrounds typically score lower on reading tests? Why do improvements in the early grades fade out as students advance to higher levels? And most significantly, why haven't substantial investments in education reform delivered expected results?

The answer lies in a longstanding misunderstanding about reading comprehension itself, and how students learn to make meaning from texts. Over six episodes, you'll learn what research tells us about how children really learn to read, and you'll hear from educators from around the country as they share their experiences of embedding knowledge-building into their literacy instruction, and the powerful effects this change has had on their students.
Episode 1: "Kids were bored to death"
June 28, 2023 - Despite substantial investments in education reform, the US remains in the grip of a decades-long reading crisis. But why? With the help of teachers and researchers, host Natalie Wexler introduces the urgent need to revisit our approach to reading comprehension.
Episode 2: "A simple way of looking at a complex problem"
June 28, 2023 - Thanks to tireless efforts by researchers, advocates, and educators, the importance of systematically teaching decoding is finally being recognized. But, as you'll hear, there's far more to reading than decoding, and more we need to do to help our kids become truly literate.
Episode 3: "That cloud looks like an anvil"
July 5, 2023 - Abby Boruff, Deloris Fowler, and Kyair Butts teach different ages and subjects, in different parts of the country. When their schools adopted knowledge-building curricula they were skeptical, but the dramatic results they saw in their classrooms helped change their minds.
Episode 4: "Now they had something to write about"
July 12, 2023 - It's hard to read about a topic you don't have knowledge about, but it's virtually impossible to write about it. By having students write about content they're learning about, knowledge-building curricula boost both writing ability and learning in general.
Episode 5: "Everything was in silos"
July 19, 2023 - To become fully literate, many students need a curriculum that builds knowledge in a logical, coherent way across grade levels, and only a leader can put that kind of system in place. Meet Brent Conway and Dr. LaTonya Goffney, two leaders who did exactly that.
Episode 6: "Think what a better society we'll have"
July 26, 2023 - American education has a number of serious problems - and our failure to start building kids' knowledge early is a fundamental one. But there are ways to ensure that the growing trend toward knowledge-building curriculum takes root and spreads.

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Natalie Wexler, education journalist and author of "The Knowledge Gap," hosts the inaugural series of our new podcast, Reading Comprehension Revisited. In six short (~30-minute) episodes, Natalie tackles crucial questions such as, why do students from low-income backgrounds typically score lower on reading tests?

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Great, easy to digest, resources on all aspects of teaching!

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From Jennifer Serravallo's Reading Strategies, Charts for HS Teachers

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From Jennifer Serravallo's Reading Strategies, Charts for HS Teachers

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Learning Targets for Selected Grade 10 Standards

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Consider adapting the "content" section for what you want to hear related to the standards.

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Example of an Oral Commentary Assessment

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Example of an Oral Commentary Assessment

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Potential Progression Tools for English 10

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How Process Checklists Support Student Writing Skills in the Age of AI

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Teachers can provide a detailed checklist to guide students to produce a strong piece of original writing.

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“AI and Assessment” - Featuring John Nash, Jennifer Delashmutt, and Shannon Doak by EdTech Lens

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In today’s episode Alex interviews three incredible educators on a panel. We chat about a hot topic in the education world at the moment-- AI and assessment. The team discusses their personal and professional backgrounds, roles, and expertise in relation to AI and assessment, with a focus on the need for a shift from traditional teaching methods to more student-centered approaches. They also critiqued external standardized tests and emphasized the importance of developing durable skills that are transferable and relevant in the modern world. The conversation ended with plans for future communication and collaboration, including the possibility of a follow-up session and the inclusion of a creative writing project in the podcast.Jennifer DeLashmutt has over 25 years of teaching and leadership experience in the United States and Asia. For the last ten years, she has served as an elementary principal and PK-12 Director of Curriculum and Professional Learning in Hong Kong ( HKIS) and Bangkok (ISB). Her background in curriculum, instructional practices, and assessment spans both primary and secondary years. She is devoted to ensuring that all learners are empowered members of their learning communities and they feel safe and valued. Jennifer is a design thinking leader who is future driven and diligently stays curious! She is an educational consultant with Novak Education. In our episode she mentions:⁠Katie Novak and Catlin Tucker - Embracing AI⁠⁠LUDIA Chatbot on Poe⁠Dr. Shannon Doak is an Edtech and Innovation Leader. Speaker, Author, Lucky Father and husband, #AI Enthusiast, #PoeCreator #CoffeeLover, and #HomeBarista | He is currently the Director of Technology at Nanjing International School. Some helpful links from Shannon are:⁠This is the book by Dr Sonny Magana⁠⁠This Grade School Offers AI-Only Classes, No Teachers Involved⁠⁠How a new Arizona school will use AI to teach students in 2-hour models⁠Walk into many schools today and you’ll find a system as outdated as a sundial at NASA - not because educators aren’t innovating, but because the system itself needs reimagining. John Nash partners with school leaders to close the gap between where education is and where it needs to be. John doesn’t treat school transformation like making microwave popcorn - push a button and pray. John’s approach is more like brewing the perfect cup of coffee: methodical, intentional, and guaranteed to wake people up. Drawing from 30 years in the trenches of education reform, he shows school leaders how to use design thinking to fundamentally rethink how schools work. As founding director of the University of Kentucky’s Laboratory on Design Thinking, he helps transform traditional institutions into dynamic learning environments where students drive their own education. His approach on design thinking and generative AI has caught the attention of everyone from the U.S. State Department, to district superintendents, to international schools. His book “Design Thinking in Schools” (Harvard Education Press) gives leaders a tested blueprint for turning bold ideas into meaningful change.

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SingaporeAS HS  English 10 Session - September 2025

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Michelle Obama's Letter to Her Younger Self

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Michelle Obama's Letter to Her Younger Self

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Great episode on strategies to support learning!

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Great episode on strategies to support learning!

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Ep. 2, Literacy and the Science of Learning: Dylan Wiliam on Building Student Knowledge - Knowledge Matters Campaign

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Our memories grow stronger when we work to retrieve them. That's why flash cards and pop quizzes are effective: they prompt students to recall and access information from their memory bank. What other instructional tools and techniques help students remember what they've learned, and how can teachers put these to use?

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Singapore AS HS RWP - September 2025 (1)

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Looks like a great tool for mapping conversations - thanks for the rec, Ebonee Joy!